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Meaning of prytane | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
pɹaɪˈteɪn

Definitions

  1. The priest or chief magistrate who presided over a prytaneum.
  2. A board of magistrates presiding over a prytaneum.

Equivalents

Français prytane

Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

prytaneum prytanis prytany Prytula Pryvillia Przasnysz

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