different between hetaera vs hetaerae

English

From Ancient Greek ?????? (hetaîra), feminine of ??????? (hetaîros, “companion”).

hetaera (plural hetaerae or hetaeras)

(historical, Ancient Greece) A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them.
Coordinate term: courtesan
A mistress.
- 1971, Gottfried Benn & E. B. Ashton, Primal vision: selected writings
  Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera.

hetaerae

Send