Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kleroterion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: klero-te-ri-on
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

kleroteria (plural) cleroterion (alternative) cleroterium (alternative)

Questions

What does kleroterion mean?: 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.
Where does kleroterion come from?: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κληρωτήριον (klērōtḗrion), from κληρόω (klēróō, “appoint by lot”) + -τήριον (-tḗrion, adjective suffix).

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