ostracon

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɒstɹəˌkɒn/    美 /ˈɑstɹəˌkɑn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A piece of pottery or stone, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel, especially one used to cast a vote during the Ancient Greek process of ostracism.
    — The process in this condemnation was thus : the people being assembled, every man took a tile called ostrakon and carried it to a certain part of the market place, surrounded by wooden rails for that purpose, in which were ten gates for the ten tribes to enter distinctly : in this place the tiles were deposited by each person, and numbered in gross by the archons.

词形变化

ostraca plural ostrakon alternative

词源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄστρακον (óstrakon).
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