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Asiarch en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin Asiarcha, from Ancient Greek Ἀσιάρχης (Asiárkhēs).

Meanings

  1. (historical) One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites.
    • They now begged Philip, the Asiarch, to let out a lion against Polycarp 1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
asiarch alternative lexicographic
Asiarchs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

Syriarch · Lyciarch · Phoeniciarch · Bithyniarch · Cappadociarch

Deriveds

Asiarchate

Translations (7)

fr asiarque (one of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia) · grc Ἀσιάρχης (one of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia) · it asiarca (one of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia) · pt asiarca (one of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia) · ru азиарх (one of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia) · de Asiarch (one of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia) · la Āsiarcha (one of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia)