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‖ hetæra, hetaira|hɪˈtɪərə, həˈtaɪrə|
Pl. hetæræ |-riː|, hetairai |-raɪ|.
[Gr. ἑταίρα, fem. of ἑταῖρος companion.]
(In ancient Greece, and hence transf.) A female companion or paramour, a mistress, a concubine; a courtesan, harlot.
‘In Attic mostly opposed to a lawful wife, and so with various shades of meaning, from a concubine (who might be a wife in all but the legal qualification of citizenship) down to a courtesan’ (Liddell & Scott).
1820W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 727 note, Finding no word in the dictionaries that completely answers to the greek hetære, as the term courtesan..I thought it, all things well considered, best to employ the word hetære as a grecian technical term. 1850J. Leitch tr. C.O. Müller's Anc. Art 363 A present to a hetaira. 1861Illustr. Times 6 July 10 Certain naughty ones, who used to be called ‘hetæræ’, and are now known as ‘horsebreakers’. 1868Tennyson Lucretius 52 Girls, Hetairai, curious in their art, Hired animalisms. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece vii. 200 There is no evidence of a society of cultivated hetairai at Athens in Pericles' day. 1885E. Peacock in Acad. 31 Oct. 287/1 The hetairae about the court [of Chas. II]. 1888Lowell Heartsease & Rue 54 Mime and hetaera getting equal weight With him whose toils heroic saved the State.
Hence heˈtæric a., of or belonging to hetæræ.
1868Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 568 Faithful to the lady of his original choice—usually of the hetæric class. |