prytany

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek [Term?].

Noun

prytany (plural prytanies)

  1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)