μετοχ-ή, ἡ,
(μετέχω) sharing, participation, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.144, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 345a, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.316.9 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περὶ μετοχῆς τοῦ παραδείσου their shares in the orchard, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 369.2 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; παρουσία καὶ μ. [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.945f ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; τίς μ. δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ἀνομί; [[ NT.2Cor.6.14 ] NT]; κατὰ μετοχήν in virtue of participation in something else, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1030a13, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.47 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κατὰ μετοχήν τε καὶ μετουσίαν τῆς ἰδέας Polyxenus cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Aphr. “in Metaphorical” 84.17; μ. καὶ θείων καὶ ἀνθρωπίνων πάντων “GDI” 5040.13, compare 5042.8 (from Hierapytna). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 Astrology texts, joint possession or occupation by two planets, [[ 2nd c.AD: Antiochus Atheniensis Astrologus in “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 8(3).107,115, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “in Ptolemaei Tetrabiblon” 190. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 partaking of food, τῇ τῶν ζῴων μετοχῇ lamb.[[ “VP” 24.108 codices (uncertain reading). ] Refs]
__4 partnership, [[ PRev.Laws 14.10 (_plural_, 3rd c.BC), etc. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II Grammars, participle, [[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 634.5, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 2, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1011c, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 15.20, +others, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.9, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 138.16. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]