The corpus record

ἱεράρχης

ierarches · ὁ

president of sacred rites, high-priest

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What it meant

ἱεράρχης · hierarchēs — LSJ

president of sacred rites, high-priest, to be high-priest

president of sacred rites, high-priest, IG 7.303 (Oropus), 9(1).32 (Stiris): Boeot. ἱᾰράρχᾱς Schwyzer 515.4, al.:—hence Boeot. ἱᾰραρχίω, to be high-priest, ib. 544.4.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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