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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ψάω (psáō, “to rub smooth, crumble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psɛ̂ː.pʰos/ → /ˈpsi.ɸos/ → /ˈpsi.fos/
Noun
ψῆφος • (psêphos) f (genitive ψήφου); second declension
- a pebble
- a precious stone, gem
- (based on the uses made of such pebbles)
- a pebble used for reckoning, a counter
- a pebble used for a draught or chessman
- a pebble used for divination
- a pebble used for voting
- that which is carried by vote, a vote
- resolve, decree, judgment
- a place of voting, poll
Inflection
Derived terms
Related terms
- ἰσοψηφῐ́ᾱ f (isopsēphíā, “equality of votes”)
- ψηφολογεῖον n (psēphologeîon, “account-board”)
- ψηφοφόρος (psēphophóros, “giving one's vote”)
- ψηφοφορῐ́ᾱ f (psēphophoríā, “voting by ballot”)
- ψηφῐ́ζω (psēphízō, “count, vote”)
- ψηφῐ́ον n (psēphíon, “small pebble”)
- ψηφῐ́ς f (psēphís, “small pebble”)
- ψήφῐσμᾰ n (psḗphisma, “proposal, decree”)
and see more than 100 words -ψηφ- at Greek Dictionary Headword Search at perseus.tufts.edu retr:2018.05.02.
Descendants
References
- “ψῆφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ψῆφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ψῆφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G5586 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- act idem, page 9.
- ballot idem, page 60.
- counter idem, page 177.
- decree idem, page 202.
- edict idem, page 261.
- enactment idem, page 270.
- resolution idem, page 702.
- suffrage idem, page 836.
- tribunal idem, page 894.
- vote idem, page 957.