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διαψήφισις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαψήφισις διαψήφισεως

Structure: διαψηφισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from diayhfi/zomai

Sense

  1. a voting by ballot

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἰ τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, τοῦτο δοκοῦσιν οὗτοι λέγειν μάλιστ’ ἰσχυρόν, ὡσ ἀπεψηφίσαντό μου νῦν οἱ δημόται, ἐγὼ τετράκισ ἐπιδεικνύω πρότερον, ὅθ’ ὁσίωσ ἄνευ συστάσεωσ ἐψηφίσαντο, καὶ ἐμὲ καὶ τὸν πατέρα δημότασ αὑτῶν εἶναι ψηφισαμένουσ, πρῶτον μέν γε τοῦ πατρὸσ δοκιμασθέντοσ, εἶτ’ ἐμοῦ, εἶτ’ ἐν τῇ προτέρᾳ διαψηφίσει, ὅτ’ ἠφάνισαν οὗτοι τὸ γραμματεῖον· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 85:1)

Synonyms

  1. a voting by ballot

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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