English Explanatory Dictionary

kleroterion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

kleroterion kleroteria cleroterion cleroterium

Etymology

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

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