The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἑταῖρος“companion”
- English todayhetaerism
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἑταῖρος all →
hetaerocracyhetaerolitehetairos
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hetaerism
Today it means: A theoretical early state of human society (as postulated by 19th-century anthropologists) which was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form, and where women were the common property of their tribe, and the children never knew their fathers. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἑταῖρος