χειροτονίαν (cheirotonian)

χειροτονίαν is an Ancient Greek form of χειροτονία, meaning “voting by show of hands”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Marcellus 24.7: … άτωρ ὁ ῥηθεὶς καλεῖται· τὸ γὰρ λέγειν δίκερε Ῥωμαῖοι καλοῦσιν ἔνιοι δὲ τὸν δικτάτορα τῷ μὴ προτιθέναι ψῆφον ἢ χειροτονίαν, ἀλλʼ ἀφʼ αὑτοῦ τὰ δόξαντα προστάττειν καὶ λέγειν οὕτως ὠνομάσθαι καὶ γὰρ τὰ διαγράμματα τῶν ἀρχόντων Ἕλληνες …

All forms of χειροτονία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.