ΕΤΑΙΡΑΙ, εταιραι
ETAIRAI, etairai
Sounds Like: eh-TAI-rai
Translations: companions, prostitutes, harlots
From the root: ΕΤΑΙΡΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to female companions. In ancient Greek, it often carried the connotation of a prostitute or harlot, especially in later periods. It is used to describe women who engage in sexual activity for payment or who are generally considered to be of loose morals.
Inflection: Nominative Plural, Feminine; or Vocative Plural, Feminine; or Genitive Singular, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2038 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 2:27
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΤΑΙΡΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΕΤΑΙΡΑ — companion, a companion, prostitute, a prostitute, harlot, a harlot
- ΕΤΑΙΡΑΔΕ — courtesan, a courtesan, prostitute, a prostitute, companion, a companion, and a courtesan, but a courtesan
- ΕΤΑΙΡΑΝ — companion, a companion, female companion, mistress, a mistress, prostitute, a prostitute
- ΕΤΑΙΡΑΣ — of a companion, of a harlot, of a prostitute
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