proxenet
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin proxeneta, from Ancient Greek.
Noun
[edit]proxenet (plural proxenets)
- A negotiator; a factor.
- 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
- the common Proxenet or Contractor of all natural Matches and Marriages betwixt Forms and Matter
Derived terms
[edit]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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “proxenet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French proxénète.
Noun
[edit]proxenet m (plural proxeneți)
Declension
[edit]Declension of proxenet
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) proxenet | proxenetul | (niște) proxeneți | proxeneții |
genitive/dative | (unui) proxenet | proxenetului | (unor) proxeneți | proxeneților |
vocative | proxenetule | proxeneților |