单词 | hetaera |
释义 | hetaerahetairan. (In ancient Greece, and hence transferred) 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). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > person > a mistress chevesea700 wifeOE bed-sister1297 concubine1297 leman1297 file1303 speciala1400 womanc1400 chamberer?a1425 mistress?a1439 cousin1470 doxy?1515 doll1560 pinnacea1568 nobsya1575 lier-by1583 sweetheart1589 she-friend1600 miss1606 underput1607 concupy1609 lig-by1610 factoress1611 leveret1617 night-piece1621 belly-piece1632 dolly1648 lie-bya1656 madamc1660 small girl1671 natural1674 convenient1676 lady of the lake1678 pure1688 tackle1688 sultana1703 kind girl1712 bosom-slave1728 pop1785 chère amie1792 fancy-woman1819 hetaera1820 fancy-piece1821 poplolly1821 secondary wife1847 other woman1855 fancy-girl1892 querida1902 wifelet1983 1820 W. Tooke in tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata 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. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) 363 A present to a hetaira. 1861 Illustr. Times 6 July 10 Certain naughty ones, who used to be called ‘hetæræ’, and are now known as ‘horsebreakers’. 1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 52 Girls Hetairai, curious in their art, Hired animalisms. 1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece vii. 200 There is no evidence of a society of cultivated hetairai at Athens in Pericles' day. 1885 E. Peacock in Academy 31 Oct. 287/1 The hetairae about the court [of Chas. II]. 1888 J. R. Lowell Heartsease & Rue 54 Mime and hetaera getting equal weight With him whose toils heroic saved the State. Derivatives heˈtaeric adj. of or belonging to hetæræ. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > unchaste or sexually compliant (of women) strumpeta1382 jadish1573 comingc1576 short heeled1591 loose in the hilts1598 loose-legged1598 loose-tailed1598 light-tailed1600 overscutched1600 stuprous1603 light-skirted1607 brothelly1608 light-heeled1611 wagtailed1648 loose-hilteda1652 feather-heeleda1674 loose-gowneda1717 frank1744 shake-tail1782 (a woman) of a certain description1803 hetaeric1868 round-heeled1926 floozy?1930 trampy1944 slack1951 slaggy1973 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [adjective] > relating to or of nature of prostitute strumpeta1382 priestybulous?1545 prostibulous?1545 curtal1595 Cyprian1787 hetaeric1868 pom-pom1945 1868 Temple Bar Nov. 568 Faithful to the lady of his original choice—usually of the hetæric class. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1820 |
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