Asiarch

See also: asiarch

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Latin Asiarcha, Ancient Greek.

Noun

Asiarch (plural Asiarchs)

  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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milner to this entry?)

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Asiarch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.