ethnarch
/ˈɛθˌnɑːɹk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The governor of a Jewish province under the Roman Empire.
noun
A leader of an ethnic community, especially a Jewish or (in the Ottoman Empire) Eastern Orthodox leader having political as well as spiritual authority.
Example Sentences
- "In the course of the struggle with the unfortunate ethnarch, the nobles had found it expedient to attach themselves to Rome."
- "In fact, from a worldly perspective, sages were petty clerks, employees of the ethnarch of their ethnic group. The ethnarch may have treated sages with […]"
- "The Archbishop became the ethnarch, the leader of the ethnic group. It was his responsibility to administer the territories where his people lived, to collect taxes and to regulate matters relating to marriage, divorce, dowry and inheritance."
- "By the seventeenth century the archbishop became recognized as the ethnarch (ethnic political leader) of the Greek Cypriot community."
- "But the Ethnarch, by tradition and long-established practice that had begun under the Ottomans, was more than a spiritual leader. He was expected to act as the spokesman, defender and protector of his flock."
Etymology
From Middle French ethnarque, and its sources, New Latin ethnarcha, Koine Greek ἐθνάρχης (ethnárkhēs, “ruler of a tribe or nation, title of a Jewish official”), from Ancient Greek ἔθνος (éthnos, “nation”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ethnarque, ethnarcha, ἐθνάρχης, ἔθνος