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Any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *dheh1- Proto-Indo-European *dhédheh1ti Ancient Greek τίθημι (títhēmi) Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs) Ancient Greek θέτης (thétēs) Byzantine Greek λογοθέτης (logothétēs)bor. Medieval Latin logothetalbor. English logothete Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin logotheta, borrowed from Byzantine Greek λογοθέτης (logothétēs), from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) + θέτης (thétēs).
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
լոգոթետ
(logotʻet)
— any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
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Greek:
λογοθέτης
(logothétis)
— any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
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Ancient Greek:
λογοθέτης
(logothétēs)
— any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
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Italian:
logoteta
— any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
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Romanian:
logofăt
— any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
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Turkish:
loğofet
— any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
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Ottoman Turkish:
لغوفت
(loğofet)
— any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire