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- prefix
pebble , smallstone - prefix
voting ,election ;ballot box
Etymologies
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From the Ancient Greek ψῆφος (psēphos, "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).
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