Etymology

prytane

P3R1Y4T1A1N1E1

Today it means: The priest or chief magistrate who presided over a prytaneum. Full definition →

Ancient Greek πρύτανις
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromπρύτανις
  2. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromπρύτανις
  3. English todayprytane

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρύτανις (prútanis).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekπρύτανις all →

prytanis

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.