psephisma

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin psēphisma, and its source, Ancient Greek ψήφισμα (psḗphisma).

Noun

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psephisma (plural psephismata)

  1. (Ancient Greece) A psephism. [from 17th c.]
    • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:
      The ruin of the antient democracies was, that they ruled […] by occasional decrees, psephismata.

Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψήφισμα (psḗphisma).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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psēphisma n (genitive psēphismatis); third declension

  1. plebiscite
  2. ordinance of the people

Declension

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative psēphisma psēphismata
Genitive psēphismatis psēphismatum
Dative psēphismatī psēphismatibus
Accusative psēphisma psēphismata
Ablative psēphismate psēphismatibus
Vocative psēphisma psēphismata

References

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  • psephisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • psephisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • psephisma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • psephisma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • psephisma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • psephisma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin