Meanings
plural logothetes
- historicalAny of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire.
Bardas rode to the imperial pavilion, where he seated himself next to his nephew and listened with every show of attention while one of the Logothetes read out the morning report.
1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 149
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
- Proto-Hellenic*lógos
- Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰédʰeh₁ti
- Ancient Greekτίθημι (títhēmi)
- Ancient Greekθέτης (thétēs)
- Medieval Greekλογοθέτης (logothétēs)
- Medieval Latinlogotheta
- Englishlogothete
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin logotheta, borrowed from Medieval Greek λογοθέτης (logothétēs), from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) + θέτης (thétēs).
More words from Medieval Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek λογοθέτης
- λογοθέτης (logothétēs)any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
Greek λογοθέτης
- λογοθέτης (logothétis)any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
Italian logoteta
- logotetaany of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
Romanian logofăt
- logofătany of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
Turkish loğofet
- loğofetany of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
Cite this entry
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