Editing Tmesis (section)

===Ancient Greek===
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Tmesis in [[Ancient Greek]] is something of a misnomer, since there is not necessarily a splitting of the prefix from the verb; rather the consensus now seems to be that the separate prefix or pre-verb reflects a stage in the language where the prefix had not yet joined onto the verb.  There are many examples in Homer's epics, the ''[[Iliad]]'' and the ''[[Odyssey]]'', both of which preserve archaic features.  One common and oft-cited example is {{lang|grc|κατὰ δάκρυα λείβων}} (''kata dakrua leibōn;'' "shedding tears"), in which the [[pre-verb]]/[[prefix]] {{lang|grc|κατά-}} ''kata-'' "down" has not yet joined the verbal participle {{lang|grc|λείβων}} ''leibōn'' "shedding". In later Greek, these would combine to form the compound verb {{lang|grc|καταλείβων}} ''kataleibōn'' "shedding (in a downwards direction)".