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χειροτονητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειροτονητός χειροτονητή χειροτονητόν

Structure: χειροτονητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xeirotone/w의 분사형

Sense

  1. elected by show of hands, elective

Declension

First/Second 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

  • δοκιμάζονται δ’ οὗτοι πρῶτον μὲν ἐν τῇ βουλῇ τοῖσ φ, πλὴν τοῦ γραμματέωσ, οὗτοσ δ’ ἐν δικαστηρίῳ μόνον ὥσπερ οἱ ἄλλοι ἄρχοντεσ πάντεσ γὰρ καὶ οἱ κληρωτοὶ καὶ οἱ χειροτονητοὶ δοκιμασθέντεσ ἄρχουσιν, οἱ δ’ ἐννέα ἄρχοντεσ ἔν τε τῇ βουλῇ καὶ πάλιν ἐν δικαστηρίῳ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 55 2:1)
  • χειροτονητοὶ δ’ οἱ τῶν κοινῶν ἐπιμεληταὶ καὶ ἀδιαίρετοι πρὸσ ἁπάντων εἰσ τὰσ χρείασ ἕκαστοι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 161:3)

Synonyms

  1. elected by show of hands

Related

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

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