pseph-

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromψῆφος“pebble”
2. English todaypseph-

From the Ancient Greek ψῆφος (psêphos, “pebble”); the later, electoral sense stems from the ancient Athenian method of voting by putting a pebble in a ballot box (for which sense see psephisma and psephophoria).

Words from the same roots