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Ethnarch

Ethnarch \Eth"narch\, n. [Gr. ?; ? nation + ? leader, commander. See -arch.] (Gr. Antiq.) The governor of a province or people.
--Lew Wallace.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ethnarch

1640s, from Latinized form of Greek ethnarkhes, from ethnos "nation, a people" (see ethnic) + arkh- "chief, first" (see archon).

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ethnarch

n. (context historical Ancient Greece English) The governor of a province or people.

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Ethnarch

Ethnarch, pronounced , the anglicized form of ethnarches , refers generally to political leadership over a common ethnic group or homogeneous kingdom. The word is derived from the Greek words ( ethnos, "tribe/nation") and ( archon, "leader/ruler"). Strong's Concordance gives the definition of 'ethnarch' as "the governor (not king) of a district."

Usage examples of "ethnarch".

It ran its own courts under the presidency of an ethnarch, and its sophisticated members rose to high positions within the country.

Greek dress and informing the ethnarchs in council that Caesar was most famous for his clemency.

Vodalus, in whose veins flowed the undefiled blood of a thousand exultants—exarchs, ethnarchs, and starosts—was capable of violence unimaginable to the autochthons that stalked the streets of Thrax, naked beneath their huanaco cloaks.

Forgetful of all save his vassal's plain fealty to the ethnarch Humphrey or Harold stayed not to yoke or saddle but stumbled out hotface as he was (his sweatful bandanna loose from his pocketcoat) hasting to the forecourts of his public in topee, surcingle, solascarf and plaid, plus fours, puttees and bulldog boots ruddled cinnabar with flagrant marl, jingling his turnpike keys and bearing aloft amid the fixed pikes of the hunting party a high perch atop of which a flowerpot was fixed earthside hoist with care.