bouleuterion
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A building in Ancient Greece, housing the boule (council of citizens), where public affairs were discussed.
Example Sentences
- "[…]we print here an updated and revised list of bouleuteria, some attested only in written sources, some physically preserved.⁶³ In most cases, however, the identification of a building as a bouleuterion is uncertain."
- "The "Old Bouleuterion", whether it was built before or after the Persian sack of Athens,³ certainly antedates the New Bouleuterion."
- "The history of the bouleuterion as a distinct architectural form seems to begin in late Archaic Athens, where the first Bouleuterion was perhaps built soon after the constitutional reforms of Kleisthenes."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βουλευτήριον (bouleutḗrion).