irenarch

English

Alternative forms

• eirenarch

Etymology

From Latin irenarcha, irenarches, from Ancient Greek [Term?] (“peace rule”).

Noun

irenarch (plural irenarches)

1. (historical) An officer in Ancient Greece having functions corresponding to those of a Justice of the Peace.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “irenarch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)