prytane

prytane

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹaɪˈteɪn/

Noun

prytane (plural prytanes)

1. The priest who presided over a prytaneum.
   • 1915: Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions, Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore

     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.

   • 1962: Magic, Myth, and Money, William Herbert Desmonde

     The priest of the city hearth was called "king", "prytane", or "archon". The term "prytane" was derived from the fact that he was the priest of the prytaneum, or local hearth.

Anagrams

• Paynter, preyant

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

prytane m (plural prytanes)

1. prytane

Further reading

• “prytane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.