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Spartiate

Spartiate noun: a Spartan, especially a full citizen.

Noun

Spartiate (plural Spartiates)

  1. A Spartan, especially a full citizen.
    • And this is a copie of the epiſtles, that the Spartiates ſent.1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 1 Machabees 14:19, page 940
    • Aristotle recognises only one thousand families of the ancient Spartiates; […]1884, Leopold von Ranke, “Relations of Persia and Greece During the First Half of the Fourth Century”, in G[eorge] W[alter] Prothero, editor, Universal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations...

Examples of Spartiate in a sentence

  • Other Spartiates commanded troops, but only a king or his regent could normally lead out the Spartan army and the forces of the Peloponnesian League.1994, Paul Anthony Rahe, “The Structure of Politics in Classical Sparta”, in The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece (Republics Ancient and...
  • Inside, the Spartiates interrupted a tense family drama.2011, Helena P. Schrader, “A Political Expedient”, in Leonidas of Sparta: A Peerless Peer, Wheatmark, →ISBN, page 408:
  • Every year Sparta would formally declare war on its neighbor so that any Spartiate (as full citizens were called—only the child of two Spartiates might become one) could commit murder legally; […]2019, Ed West, Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

Forms of Spartiate

pluralSpartiates

Origin of Spartiate

From Middle English Sparciate, from Latin Spartiātēs, from Ancient Greek Σπᾰρτῐᾱ́της (Spărtĭā́tēs), from Σπᾰ́ρτη (Spắrtē) + -ᾱ́της (-ā́tēs).

Questions about Spartiate

What does Spartiate mean?
Spartiate means a Spartan, especially a full citizen.
How do you use Spartiate in a sentence?
Other Spartiates commanded troops, but only a king or his regent could normally lead out the Spartan army and the forces of the Peloponnesian League.
What part of speech is Spartiate?
Spartiate is a noun.
What is the plural of Spartiate?
The plural of Spartiate is Spartiates.

Words near Spartiate in the dictionary

  1. spartery
  2. sparth
  3. sparthe
  4. sparthes
  5. sparths
  6. Spartiate
  7. Spartiates
  8. sparticle
  9. sparticles
  10. spartina
  11. spartinas

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