Etymology

kleroterion

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Today it means: A device used in sortition, consisting of a stone slab incised with rows of slots and with an attached tube, and operating on tokens representing citizens. Full definition →

Ancient Greek κληρωτήριον
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  1. Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromκληρωτήριον
  2. English todaykleroterion

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κληρωτήριον (klērōtḗrion), from κληρόω (klēróō, “appoint by lot”) + -τήριον (-tḗrion, adjective suffix).

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