hetaera

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɪˈtɪəɹə/
• IPA: /hɪˈtaɪɹə/

Noun

hetaera (plural hetaerae)

1. (historical, Ancient Greece) A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them.

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2. A mistress.
   • 1971, Gottfried Benn & E. B. Ashton, Primal vision: selected writings‎

     Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera.

Related terms

• etaerio
• hetaerism
• hetaerist

Translations

• French: hétaïre
• German: Hetäre
• Portuguese: hetera, hetaira
• Russian: гете́ра
• Spanish: hetera, hetaira

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