psephology

• n. 选举学

来自希腊语psephos,小石子，鹅卵石，可能来自psen,刮，磨，-logy,学说。源自古希腊时期用小石子等投票。比较ostracism.

psephology

psephology: [20] The term psephology ‘study of voting patterns’ was coined in the early 1950s by R B McCallum from Greek pséphos ‘pebble’. Pebbles were used in ancient Greece for casting votes, and so pséphos came to mean metaphorically ‘vote’ – hence psephology.

psephology (n.)

"study of elections," 1952, from Greek psephizein "to vote" (properly "to vote with pebbles," from psephos "pebble") + -logy.