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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κληρόω (klēróō, “to appoint by lot”) + -τήριον (-tḗrion).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɛː.rɔː.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/ → /kli.roˈti.ri.on/ → /kli.roˈti.ri.on/
Noun
κληρωτήρῐον • (klērōtḗrion) n (genitive κληρωτηρῐ́ου); second declension
- place where elections by lot or distributions of jurors were held
- list of citizens, so called because jurors were selected from it by lot
- kleroterion (machine used in sortition)
Inflection
Further reading
- “κληρωτήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κληρωτήριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Papazarkadas, Nicholas (2021) “Courts, Magistrates and Allotment Procedures: A New Inscribed Kleroterion from Hellenistic Athens”, in Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, Werner Riess, editors, Symposion 2019. Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte , Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, →ISBN, pages 105–23