Plutarch

Plutarch

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πλούταρχος (Ploútarkhos).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpluː.tɑːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈplu.tɑɹk/
• Hyphenation: Plu‧tarch

Proper noun

Plutarch

1. The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 CE). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
   • 1878, Morris, John G., Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry‎, OL 22880165M, page 11:

     I am indebted to […] those masterly pen and ink portraits of many of our deceased ministers drawn by the lamented Professor Stoever, in the Evangelical Review, whom I designated some years ago as the Plutarch of the Lutheran Church of America.

   • 1895, Hubbard, Elbert, Gladstone‎, OL 1113581W, page 100:

     Some day a Plutarch, without a Plutarch's prejudice will arise, and with malice toward none but charity for all, he will write the life of the statesman, Gladstone.

   • 1903, Crothers, Samuel McChord, The Gentle Reader‎, LCCN 03025285, OL 7038563M, page 132:

     I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining.

Derived terms

• Plutarchian

Translations

Greek historian

Armenian: Պլուտարքոս (Plutarkʿos) Chinese: Mandarin: 柏拉图 (zh) Dutch: Plutarchus Esperanto: Plutarko Finnish: Plutarkhos French: Plutarque (fr) German: Plutarch Greek: Πλούταρχος (el) m (Ploútarchos) Hebrew: פלוטארכוס‎ (Plutarkhus) Hungarian: Plutarkhosz (hu) Icelandic: Plútarkos m

Italian: Plutarco (it) Japanese: プルタルコス (Purutarukusu) Korean: 플루타르크 (peullutareukeu) Latin: Plutarchus Persian: پلوتارک‎ (plutárk), افلوطرخس‎ (eflutarxos) Polish: Plutarch Portuguese: Plutarco Russian: Плутарх (ru) (Plutarx) Spanish: Plutarco (es) Swedish: Plutarchos Ukrainian: Плутарх (Plutarkh)

Noun

Plutarch (plural Plutarchs)

1. Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
   • 1895, O.A. Bierstadt, The Library of Robert Hoe‎, page 164:

     Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.

Further reading

• Plutarch at OneLook Dictionary Search