Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2014/December 13

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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
διαίρεσις (diaíresis) f, noun
  1. divisibility
  2. (medicine) dissection
  3. (rhetoric) division or distribution of an argument into its component subjects or subtopics (known formerly as "heads")
  4. (poetry) division of a poetic line when the end of a word and a metrical foot coincide, diaeresis
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