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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

  • "τῶν δὲ πρυτάνεών τινων οὐ φασκόντων προθήσειν τὴν διαψήφισιν παρὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ, αὖθισ Καλλίξεινοσ ἀναβὰσ κατηγόρει αὐτῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 58 2:4)
  • πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ὃν τρόπον ἐν τοῖσ δημόταισ συνέβη τὴν διαψήφισιν γενέσθαι, φράσω πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 8:1)
  • οὗτοσ δὲ ὡμολόγηκεν ἀδίκωσ συλλαβεῖν, ὥστε ῥᾳδίαν ὑμῖν τὴν διαψήφισιν περὶ αὑτοῦ πεποίηκε. (Lysias, Speeches, 40:4)
  • τῶν δὲ πρυτάνεών τινων οὐ φασκόντων προθήσειν τὴν διαψήφισιν παρὰ τὸν νόμον, αὖθισ Καλλίξενοσ ἀναβὰσ κατηγόρει αὐτῶν τὰ αὐτά. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 7 15:1)
  • εἰσαγωγὰσ δὲ τούτων καὶ προσκλήσεισ καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα καὶ ὡσ δεῖ γίγνεσθαι, τοῖσ νεωτέροισ νομοθέταισ χρὴ μέλειν, τὴν διαψήφισιν δὲ ἡμέτερον ἔργον νομοθετεῖν. (Plato, Laws, book 9 17:1)

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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