Noun: hetaera
| Singular | hetaera |
| Plural | hetaerae; hetaeras |
Sample Sentences
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But of course our friend is only a shallow twentieth-century reproduction of the great hetairae of the past, the type to which she belongs without knowing it, Lais, Charis and the rest... [1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:]
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Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera. [1971, Gottfried Benn, E. B. Ashton, Primal vision: selected writings:]
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Christ appeared, only to reveal himself as the naked god Pan. Ballet of hetaerae and houris, choreography by Italo Castaldi. [1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:]
Nouns inflected like hetaera
serosa,
situla,
ecclesia,
synapticula,
condensed formula,
melopoeia,
pfennig,
failed supernova,
subcosta,
mycoflora,
zonula,
noctiluca,
anurofauna,
veillonella,
dalmatica,
bosenova,
ectomycorrhiza,
microfauna,
lymphoglandula,
un-nova, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἑταίρᾱ (hetaírā), feminine of ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “companion”).