Tmema
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A segment or section. rare
"The benefit of which I now make such honourable mention is this: that as the books of the New Testament had been divided into those sections (tmemata) which we call chapters, he himself divided, or rather subdivided, these sections into those tmematia, or smaller sections, called, by an appellation more approved by others than by him, versicles; for he preferred calling them by the Greek name Tmematia, or its Latin Sectiunculæ."
- 2 A cell ruptured in setting free a moss-gemma.
"In the cultures of November and January the tmemata described by Correns were found on the primary protonema after about 2 months."
Example
More examples"The benefit of which I now make such honourable mention is this: that as the books of the New Testament had been divided into those sections (tmemata) which we call chapters, he himself divided, or rather subdivided, these sections into those tmematia, or smaller sections, called, by an appellation more approved by others than by him, versicles; for he preferred calling them by the Greek name Tmematia, or its Latin Sectiunculæ."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τμῆμα (tmêma).
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