Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /sxíz̚zo/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /scíz̚zo/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /scízo/

Verb

σχῐ́ζω • ‎(skhízō)

1. I split, cleave
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 428

     ὅς τε μάλ᾽ ἐνδυκέως ῥινὸν κρατεροῖς ὀνύχεσσι σχίσσας

     very eagerly ripping the hide with his strong claws

   • Homeric Hymn to Hermes 128

     καὶ ἔσχισε δώδεκα μοίρας κληροπαλεῖς

     and cut them into twelve portions distributed by lot

   1. I part, separate, divide
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.17

        ὁ γὰρ δὴ Νεῖλος [...] ῥέει μέσην Αἴγυπτον σχίζων ἐς θάλασσαν.

        For the Nile [...] divides Egypt in two parts as it flows to the sea.

      • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 264.d

        πάλιν τοίνυν ἐπιχειρῶμεν, σχίζοντες διχῇ τὸ προτεθὲν γένος

        Then let us try again; dividing in two the proposed class

   2. I curdle milk
      • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 2.70
2. (figuratively)
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.219

     ἐνθαῦτα ἐβουλεύοντο οἱ Ἕλληνες, καί σφεων ἐσχίζοντο αἱ γνῶμαι:

     The Hellenes then took counsel, but their opinions were divided.

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References

• σχίζω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σχίζω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «σχίζω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4977”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σχίζω ‎(skhízō).

Verb

σχίζω • ‎(schízo) ‎(simple past έσχισα or έσκισα, passive form σχίζομαι)

1. Alternative form of σκίζω ‎(skízo)

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