Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

χειροτονία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειροτονία

Structure: χειροτονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a voting or electing by show of hands
  2. a vote

Declension

First 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

  • Οἵ τε Πομπηιανοὶ πυθόμενοι θαυμαστοὶ ὅσοι διεφάνησαν, ἐκβοῶντεσ ἄρτι τὴν πάτριον ἐλευθερίαν ἀπειληφέναι, καὶ θυσίαι καθ’ ἕνα ἦσαν καὶ χειροτονίαι δέκα ἀνδρῶν ἐσ εὔθυναν τῆσ ἀρχῆσ τῆσ Ἀντωνίου. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 11 6:1)
  • αἵ τε προγραφαὶ τῶν δέκα ἀνδρῶν κατεσπῶντο σὺν ὕβρει, καὶ αἱ χειροτονίαι τῶν ὑπάτων ἐπείχοντο ἔτι μᾶλλον· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 12 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a voting or electing by show of hands

  2. a vote

Related

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

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