different between archon vs prytane

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (árkh?n), a noun use of the present participle of ???? (árkh?, “to rule”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)k?n/

Noun

archon (plural archontes or archons)

1. A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
2. A person who claims the right to rule, or to exercise power or sovereign authority over other human beings.
3. A ruler, head of state or other leader.
4. (Gnosticism) A supernatural being subordinate to the Demiurge.

Related terms

• archaeo-
• archaic
• archaism
• archeo-
• archive
• -archy

Translations

Further reading

• archon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• archon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• archon at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Anchor, Charon, achorn, anchor, noarch, rancho

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (árkh?n).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.k?o?n/, [?ärk?o?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.kon/, [??rk?n]

Noun

arch?n m (genitive archontis); third declension

1. archon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: arcont
• Italian: arconte
• Portuguese: arconte
• Spanish: arconte

References

• archon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• archon in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• archon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• archon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• archon in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• archon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• archon in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• archon in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Pronunciation

Noun

prytane (plural prytanes)

1. The priest who presided over a prytaneum.
   • 1915: Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions, Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore

     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.

   • 1962: Magic, Myth, and Money, William Herbert Desmonde

     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.

Anagrams

• Paynter

French

Noun

prytane m (plural prytanes)

1. prytane

Further reading

• “prytane” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

prytane m

1. prytane