ὁμοιότης
homoiotes
likeness, resemblance
Appears 110 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ὁμοιότης, ητος, ἡ, A. likeness, resemblance, 164, Phd. 109a, al. : pl., ib.82a, Sph. 231a ; ἡ αὑτοῖς ὁ. τῆς διαγωγῆς mode of passing life like themselves, Tht. 177a ; ὁμοιότητι τετάχθαι κατά τι correspond to . . , R. 555a ; so ὁμοιότητι εἶναι κατά τι ib.576c ; ὁμοιότητι equally, Ti. 75d : c. dat., resemblance to . . , Phdr. 253b, al. ; [ὁμοιότητες] γίνονται τοῖς τέκνοις πρὸς τοὺς γεννήσαντας Pol. 1262a16, cf. EN 1108b31 ; τίνι τῶν ζῴων εἰς ὁμοιότητα ; in likeness of what animal ? Ti. 30c, cf. 81d ; καθʼ ὁμοιότητα λέγεσθαι, opp. ἁπλῶς, EN 1147b34 ; καθʼ ὁ. σημειοῦσθαι, ἡ καθʼ ὁ. σημείωσις, Sign. 31,34 ; ὁ κατὰ τὴν ὁ. τρόπος ib.8 ; later καθʼ ὁμοιότητα c. gen., in the same way as, ἀξιῶν ἐνταγῆναι κἀμοῦ τὸν υἱὸν τῇ τῶν ἐφήβων γραφῇ καθʼ ὁ. τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ POxy. 1202.24 (iii A. D.), cf. 237 vi6 (ii A. D.), BGU 1028.15 (ii A. D.), PSI 1.107.2 (ii A. D.), Ep.Hebr. 7.15 : without gen., ib.4.15.
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