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χειροτονητός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: cheirotonētos

Principal Part: χειροτονητός χειροτονητή χειροτονητόν

Structure: χειροτονητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: χειροτονέω의 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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ χειροτονητὸς ὑφ᾿ ἁπάντων προκριθεὶς ἄρχων, ἄριστος εἶναι δόξας ἀνθρώπων ἡγεῖσθαι καὶ πράγμασι χρῆσθαι: (Lucian, 50:1)
  • πρότερον μὲν οὖν οὗτος ἦν χειροτονητός, καὶ τοὺς ἐνδοξοτάτους καὶ πιστοτάτους ἐχειροτόνουν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 54 3:2)
  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ καθ ἡμᾶς ἱερεὺς χειροτονητὸς ἀπεδείκνυτο Τίτου, καὶ θύσαντες αὐτῷ τῶν σπονδῶν γενομένων ᾄδουσι παιᾶνα πεποιημένον, οὗ τἆλλα διὰ μῆκος ἡμεῖς παρέντες ἀνεγράψαμεν ἃ παυόμενοι τῆς ᾠδῆς λέγουσι: (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 16 4:1)
  • πρότερον μὲν τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ἀντιγραφεὺς ἦν χειροτονητὸς τῇ πόλει, ὃς καθ ἑκάστην πρυτανείαν ἀπελογίζετο τὰς προσόδους τῷ δήμῳ: (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 25 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. elected by show of hands

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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