εως (ἡ) [ῠ] action de délier, d’où :
      1 affranchissement, libération, SOPH. El. 142 ;
      2 dissolution, ARSTT. Mund. 4, 11 ; PLUT. M. 884 d, 915 c ;
      3 résolution d’un tout en ses parties, analyse (p. opp. à σύνθεσις) ARSTT. Nic. 3, 3, 12 ;
      4 solution d’un problème, PLUT. Rom. 12 ;
      5 action de détacher (càd. de lever) l’ancre, d’où action de partir, JOS. A.J. 19, 4, 1 ; fig. mort, NT. 2Tim. 4, 6.

Étym. ἀναλύω.

εως, ἡ, (< ἀναλύω) loosing, releasing, κακῶν from evils, S. El. 142 (lyr.); ὅρκων Timae. 23.
dissolving, Arist. Mu. 394b17, Plu. 2.915c (pl.); σώματος, of death, Secund. Sent. 19.
resolution of a problem by the analysis of its conditions, opp. σύνθεσις, Arist. EN 1112b23; esp. in Math., Phld. Acad. Ind. 17, Papp. 634.11, Procl. in Euc. p. 43 F. in the Logic of Arist., reduction of the imperfect figures into the perfect one, APr. 51a18, al., Chrysipp. Stoic. 2.7.
solution of a problem, etc., Plu. Rom. 12. (from Pass.) retrogression, Id. 2.76d; retirement, departure, J. AJ 19.4.1; death (cf. ἀναλύω III), 2 Ep. Ti. 4.6.

ἡ, das Auflösen, die Aufhebung, κακῶν, Befreiung von Uebeln, Soph. El. 140 ; Lösung einer Schwierigkeit, Plut. Rom. 12, Beantwortung einer Frage. Bei den Philosophen u. Mathematikern, im Ggstz der σύνθεσις, Auflösung in die einfachen Begriffe, Arist. Anal. pr. 1.45, Eth. 3.3.

ἀνά-λυσις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀναλύω),
a loosing, e.g. of a vessel from its moorings, hence, departure: from life, 2Ti.4:6.†
(AS)