Liddell-Scott-Jones

τομή (tomē) pruning ^G:N-F

τομή-ή, ἡ,

(τέμνω)

__A end left after cutting, stump of a tree, [τομήὴν ἐν ὄρεσσι λέλοιπεν [τὸ σκῆπτρον] 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.235 ">Refs 8th c.BC+]; ῥιζῶν τομήαί the ends of the roots (left by cutting away the tree), [τομήῆς [prev. work] 2 ">Refs 5th c.BC+]; δοκοῦ τ. end of a beam, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; λίθοι ἐν τομήῇ ἐγγώνιοι stones cut square, [τομήῇ) ">Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκέψαι τομήῇ προσθεῖσα βόστρυχον having fitted the lock to the place from which it was cut, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὴν τ. μεταστρέφειν to the cut, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.b Ταύροιο τ. probably ={προτομήή} [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.2 in Mathematics texts, section, as a circle is the section of a sphere, a conic section of the cone, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; with or without κοινή, the line in which two planes cut each other, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; point of intersection of two lines, [Refs 3rd c.BC+] On determinate section, name of lost treatise of [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τὰ περὶ τὴν τ. the theorems about the section (i.e. in extreme and mean ratio), [Refs 5th c.AD+] —in conic sections, τομήαὶ ἀντικείμεναι opposite sections, i.e. branches of hyperbola, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; συζυγεῖς τ. conjugate sections of hyperbolas, [Refs]
__A.3 incision or insection between parts of an insect's body (whence their name of ἔντομήα), [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.4 ἡ εἰς ἄπειρον τ. infinite divisibility, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.II cutting, cleaving, ἐν τομήᾷ σιδάρου by stroke of iron, [τομήαί [prev. author] “Or.” 1101 ">Refs 5th c.BC+]; cutting off or down, ξύλου [Refs 5th c.BC+]; vine-cutting, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; cutting up, εἰς τ. καὶ προσαγωγὴν χάλικος [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; hewing, λίθων [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.II.2 use of the knife in surgery, [τομήῇ χρησάμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 406d; οὔτε τ. οὔτε καῦσις 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 62; σιδήρου τ. 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.80: \_plural\_, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.53, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 403.6; τὰς θεραπείας.. διὰ καύσεών τε καὶ τομήῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 354a, compare “Ti.” 65b. ">Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.3 castration, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.II.4 τ. φαρμάκων shredding of drugs, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
__A.II.5 pruning, ἀμπέλων [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.II.6 σκυτῶν τ. cutting or shaping of leather, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.7 αἱ τ. τῆς γῆς, i.e. canals, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
__A.III severance, separation, τ. καὶ διάκρισις [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of number, division, [Refs]; τομήὴν ἔχειν ἔν τινι to admit a distinction in.., [Refs]; χρονικαὶ τ. distinctions of tenses, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; process of division (i.e. μεγέθους), [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.III.2 logical division, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III.3 metaphorically, conciseness or precision in expression, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
__A.III.4 τ. πράγματος, = decisio, [Refs]
__A.IV a cut, wound, [Refs 4th c.BC+]: metaphorically, wound, πόλις δεδεγμένη τ. [Refs 1st c.AD+]
__A.IV.2 caesura in verse, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; more generally, break between successive words, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.V edge, cutting power, σιδήρου [Refs 2nd c.AD+]