prytane

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The priest or chief magistrate who presided over a prytaneum.
    — This priest of the public hearth bore the name of king. Sometimes they gave him other titles. As he was especially the priest of the prytaneum, the Greeks preferred to call him the prytane; sometimes they also called him the archon.
  2. A board of magistrates presiding over a prytaneum.

词形变化

prytanes plural

词源

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πρύτανις (prútanis)bor.
English prytane
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρύτανις (prútanis).
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