different between ostracon vs ostracize

English

Alternative forms

• ostrakon

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (óstrakon).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??st???k?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??st???k?n/
• Hyphenation: os?tra?con

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.

Related terms

• ostracism

Anagrams

• Socotran, cartoons, corantos

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (ostrakíz?, “to banish from a city by ostracism”), from ???????? (óstrakon, “earthenware vessel; fragment of such a vessel, potsherd”) (from the fact that when voting was held to decide whether to banish people, their names were inscribed on potsherds) + -???? (-íz?, suffix forming verbs)). The English word is cognate with French ostraciser.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??st??sa?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??st???sa?z/
• Hyphenation: os?trac?ize

Verb

ostracize (third-person singular simple present ostracizes, present participle ostracizing, simple past and past participle ostracized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism. [from mid 19th c.]
2. (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun. [from mid 17th c.]

   Synonyms: blackball, cut someone dead, give someone the cold shoulder, send to Coventry; see also Thesaurus:ignore

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:pay attention

Alternative forms

• ostracise (British spelling)

Derived terms

Related terms

• ostracism
• ostracon, ostrakon
• ostracum
• ostracy (obsolete, rare)

Translations

See also

• silent treatment

Notes

References

Further reading

• ostracism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ostracize”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Croatizes, Socratize, socratize

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?os.t?a.?si.zi/, /?o?-/

Verb

ostracize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of ostracizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of ostracizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of ostracizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of ostracizar