hetaera

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them. historical
    — But of course our friend is only a shallow twentieth-century reproduction of the great hetairae of the past, the type to which she belongs without knowing it, Lais, Charis and the rest...
  2. A mistress.
    — Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera.

词形变化

hetaerae plural hetaeras plural hetaira alternative hetæra alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
hetaeric
相关词
etaerio hetaerism hetaerist

词源

From Ancient Greek ἑταίρᾱ (hetaírā), feminine of ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “companion”).
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