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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

  • τὰσ δὲ ἀμφισβητήσεισ τῶν χειροτονιῶν μέχρι δυοῖν εἶναι· (Plato, Laws, book 6 35:1)
  • τί γὰρ ἔτι τὰσ φυλὰσ ἐν ταῖσ χειροτονίαισ θεραπεύομεν, τί δὲ ὑμῶν δεόμεθα, ποῦ δὲ ἔσεσθε τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἢ χειροτονιῶν ἢ τῶν ὑπατειῶν ἔτι κύριοι, εἰ μὴ βεβαιώσετε μέν, ἃ δίδοτε, ἀφαιρήσεσθε δ’, ὅταν αὐτοὶ δοκιμάσητε. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 8 2:11)

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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