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单词 alytarch
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alytarchn.

Brit. /ˈalᵻtɑːk/, U.S. /ˈæləˌtɑrk/
Forms:

α. 1600s alytarcha.

β. 1600s alytark, 1600s– alytarch.

γ. 1600s– alytarches.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin alytarcha; Greek ἀλυτάρχης.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin alytarcha official responsible for maintaining order at Olympic Games (4th cent.) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek ἀλυτάρχης < ἀλύτης official responsible for maintaining order, especially at Olympic Games, of unknown origin + -ἀρχης -arch comb. form1.
Ancient Greek History.
An official responsible for maintaining order at the ancient Olympic Games.
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society > leisure > sport > judging or umpiring > [noun] > director of public games
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1646 J. Gregory Notes & Observ. x. 47 To beare the Alytarcha's part and be a May-King, or Mock-Iupiter in these Revels.
1791 W. Beloe tr. Herodotus Hist. II. v. 387 Then the Alytarch, or one of the Hellanodicæ, obliging them to stand in a circle, paired such together as had drawn the same letter.
1810 F. Lee et al. tr. Pindar Odes viii. 52 When every one had drawn, the Alytarches, or one of the presidents of the Games,..inspected the lots.
1874 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 66/1 The officers who executed their commands were called alytai, and were under the presidency of an alytarch.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. xxxi. 34 There was an Alytarch, who represented Zeus, a Grammateus, who played the part of Apollo.
1986 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 76 94 To the Antonine period may well belong the honorific term of a third prominent Smyrnaean, C. Claudius Valerius Licinnianus, as alytarch of the Olympia at Elis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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