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epistates

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
epis-tates
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A superintendent or overseer in Ancient Greece.

noun

A man positioned behind a protostates in an Ancient Greek phalanx. For example, in a file of eight men, the protostates were in positions 1, 3, 5 and 7 and the epistates in 2, 4, 6 and 8.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπιστάτης (epistátēs).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: ἐπιστάτης

Inflected Forms

epistatai (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

protostates

Questions

What does epistates mean?
A superintendent or overseer in Ancient Greece.
Where does epistates come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

How to pronounce epistates

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