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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

  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ διαψηφίσεισ ἐξ ἀνάγκησ ἐγένοντο τοῖσ δημόταισ ὀμόσασιν καθ’ ἱερῶν, ὅτ’ ἀπώλετ’ αὐτοῖσ τὸ ληξιαρχικὸν γραμματεῖον δημαρχοῦντοσ Ἀντιφίλου τοῦ πατρὸσ τοῦ Εὐβουλίδου, καί τινασ ἀπήλασαν αὑτῶν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 36:2)
  • γεγόνασι διαψηφίσεισ ἐν τοῖσ δήμοισ, καὶ ἕκαστοσ ἡμῶν ψῆφον δέδωκε περὶ τοῦ σώματοσ, ὅστισ Ἀθηναῖοσ ὄντωσ ἐστὶ καὶ ὅστισ μή. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 772)
  • οὐδεὶσ ὑμῶν διὰ τὰσ ἐμὰσ ἡδονὰσ κάκιον οἰκεῖ, οὐδὲ ἐστέρηται τῆσ πατρίδοσ κατηγόρου τυχών, ὅτ’ ἦσαν αἱ διαψηφίσεισ, οὐδ’ ὑπεύθυνοσ ὢν ἀρχῆσ ἐκινδύνευσεν. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1825)

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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