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ostrakon

ostrakon is the alternative form of ostracon.

Meaning of ostracon

Noun

ostracon (plural ostraca)

  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...1804, William Fordyce Mavor, chapter I, in Universal History, Ancient and Modern, volume III, New York: Stansbury, page 5

Forms of ostrakon

pluralostraka

Questions about ostrakon

What is ostrakon the alternative form of?
Ostrakon is the alternative form of ostracon.

Words near ostrakon in the dictionary

  1. ostracon
  2. ostraconophobia
  3. ostraculture
  4. ostracum
  5. ostraka
  6. ostrakon
  7. ostranenie
  8. ostrasize
  9. Ostrava
  10. Ostrea Lake
  11. ostreacean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ostrakon (page history and authors); ostracon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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