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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

  • ἠρίθμησασ γὰρ αὐτοὺσ δηλαδὴ καθάπερ ἐν ταῖσ χειροτονίαισ. (Lucian, 33:2)
  • εἶτα πρὸσ τῶν θεῶν τὸ τὴν τῆσ φύσεωσ κακίαν καὶ ἀνανδρίαν καὶ πονηρίαν ταῖσ παρ’ ὑμῶν ἀρχαῖσ καὶ τιμαῖσ καὶ χειροτονίαισ ἐπανορθοῦσθαι μικρὰν ὑπολαμβάνετ’ εἶναι δωρειὰν καὶ χάριν; (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 224:1)
  • εἰ κατέλθοι δ’ εἰσ τὰσ Συρακούσσασ, πάντωσ ἀναγκαῖον ἂν ἦν ἰδιώτην ὑπάρχειν καὶ ἕνα τῶν πολλῶν ἀριθμεῖσθαι, τῆσ αὐτονομίασ ἀγαπώσησ τὴν ἰσότητα, ἔν τε ταῖσ χειροτονίαισ ὑπὸ τοῦ τυχόντοσ δημαγωγοῦ παρευημερεῖσθαι, τοῦ πλήθουσ ἀντικειμένου ταῖσ ὑπεροχαῖσ τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν ἀγόντων παρρησίαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 79 3:1)
  • ἐξῆν γὰρ δὴ τῷ παλαιῷ τε καὶ Ἑλληνικῷ νόμῳ, <οὐ> καθάπερ ὁ Σικελικόσ τε καὶ Ἰταλικὸσ νόμοσ νῦν, τῷ πλήθει τῶν θεατῶν ἐπιτρέπων καὶ τὸν νικῶντα διακρίνων χειροτονίαισ, διέφθαρκε μὲν τοὺσ ποιητὰσ αὐτούσ ‐ πρὸσ γὰρ τὴν τῶν κριτῶν ἡδονὴν ποιοῦσιν οὖσαν φαύλην, ὥστε αὐτοὶ αὐτοὺσ οἱ θεαταὶ παιδεύουσιν ‐ διέφθαρκεν δ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦ θεάτρου τὰσ ἡδονάσ· (Plato, Laws, book 2 42:2)
  • τῶν τε ἑτέρων συμμάχων, οἷσ οὐκ ἐξῆν ψῆφον ἐν ταῖσ Ῥωμαίων χειροτονίαισ φέρειν, ἐδίδου φέρειν ἀπὸ τοῦδε ἐπὶ τῷ ἔχειν καὶ τούσδε ἐν ταῖσ χειροτονίαισ τῶν νόμων αὑτῷ συντελοῦντασ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 3 6:3)

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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