διακριτικός

diakritikos

piercing, penetrating

Appears 7 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Topics 4
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Book I 1
Chapter 15 106a1–107b37

107b29
Book III 2
Chapter 5 119a12–31

119a30
119a31
Book VII 1
Chapter 3 153a6–154a11

153a38
Metaphysics 3
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Book Ι 3
Chapter 7 1057a18–1057b34

1057b8
1057b10
1057b19

Dictionary (LSJ)

διακριτικός, ή, όν, A. piercing, penetrating, opp. compressing (συγκριτικός), Pl. Ti. 67e; χρῶμα Arist. Metaph. 1057b8. 2. separative, ἡ -κή, opp. ἡ συγκριτική (q.v.), Pl. Plt. 282b sqq. Adv. -κῶς Democr. 164. II. able to distinguish, τῆς οὐσίας Pl. Cra. 388c; ὄψις ἕξις δ. σωμάτων Id. Def. 411c: abs., Luc. Herm. 69.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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