hieromnemon

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἱερομνήμων (hieromnḗmōn), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred”) + μνήμων (mnḗmōn, “mindful, remembering”, from μνήμη (mnḗmē)).

Noun

hieromnemon (plural hieromnemons or hieromnemones)

1. (historical, Ancient Greece) The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister.
2. (historical) A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hieromnemon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

• “ἱερομνήμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press