prytany
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek [Term?]
Noun
prytany (plural prytanies)
- (historical, Ancient Greece) The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for prytany in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)