"psephology" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /sɪˈfɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ [UK], /sɪˈfɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-psephology.wav
Etymology: From psepho- (“pebble”) + -ology (“study of”), drawing on the various definitions of Ancient Greek ψῆφος (psêphos, “pebble used for reckoning; pebble used for casting a vote”). The sense relating to elections was coined in 1948 by Frank Hardie. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|psepho-|-ology|t1=pebble|t2=study of}} psepho- (“pebble”) + -ology (“study of”), {{der|en|grc|ψῆφος||pebble used for reckoning; pebble used for casting a vote}} Ancient Greek ψῆφος (psêphos, “pebble used for reckoning; pebble used for casting a vote”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} psephology (uncountable)
  1. The predictive or statistical study of elections. Tags: uncountable Translations (the predictive or statistical study of elections): ဝရဏဗေဒ (wa.ra.na.beda.) (Burmese), psefologie (Dutch), bestudering van het kiezersgedrag (Dutch), vaalitutkimus (Finnish), psepologia (Finnish), pséphologie [feminine] (French), პსეფოლოგია (ṗsepologia) (Georgian), Psephologie [feminine] (German), psefologia [feminine] (Italian), انتخاباتپژوهی (entexâbât-pažuhi) (Persian), псефология (psefologija) [feminine] (Russian), psefología [feminine] (Spanish), วิทยาการเลือกตั้ง (wít-tá-yaa-gaan-lʉ̂ʉak-dtâng) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-psephology-en-noun-5W6~fS-i Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of 'the predictive or statistical study of elections': 95 5
  2. An ancient Greek method of numerology, similar to gematria. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Democracy, Statistics
    Sense id: en-psephology-en-noun-uKC47AxU Disambiguation of Democracy: 28 72 Disambiguation of Statistics: 34 66 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with psepho-, English terms suffixed with -ology, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Burmese translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Thai translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with psepho-: 22 78 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ology: 38 62 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 37 63 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 64 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Burmese translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Thai translations: 28 72
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: psephological, psephologist Related terms: psephocracy
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.