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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

  • ἀλλὰ περὶ μὲν τὰσ κληρωτὰσ ἀρχάσ ἐστι τοιοῦτοσ, περὶ δὲ τὰσ χειροτονητὰσ βελτίων. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1131)

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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