Jump to content

pseph-

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

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).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Prefix

[edit]

pseph-

  1. pebble, small stone
  2. voting, election; ballot box

Usage notes

[edit]
  • When combined with a word or another affix which begins with a consonant, this prefix concatenates with the interfix -o- (as psepho-).
  • Of the pronunciations in use, psēf— is the most etymologically consistent.

Derived terms

[edit]
[edit]

References

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]