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μέρει (merei)

μέρει is an Ancient Greek form of μέρος, meaning “part, share”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 567 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.1.2: κίνησις γὰρ αὕτη μεγίστη δὴ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἐγένετο καὶ μέρει τινὶ τῶν βαρβάρων, ὡς δὲ εἰπεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀνθρώπων.

Arrian, Indica 14.6: ὃ δὲ ἐν μέρεϊ τῇ προβοσκίδι ἔκρουε τὸ κύμβαλον ἐν ῥυθμῷ πρὸς ἑκατέροιν τοῖν σκελοῖν, οἳ δὲ ὀρχεόμενοι ἐν κύκλῳ τε ἐχόρευον, καὶ ἐπαίροντές τε καὶ ἐπικάμπτοντες τὰ ἔμπροσθε σκέλεα ἐν τῷ μέρεϊ ἐν ῥυθμῷ καὶ οὗτοι ἔβαινον, κατʼ ὅτι ὁ κυμβαλίζων σφίσιν ὑπηγέετο.

All forms of μέρος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.