Asiarch

• asiarch

From Latin Asiarcha, from Ancient Greek Ἀσιάρχης (Asiárkhēs).

Asiarch (plural Asiarchs)

1. (historical) One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites.
   • 1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ:

     They now begged Philip, the Asiarch, to let out a lion against Polycarp

• Syriarch, Cappadociarch, Bithyniarch, Phoeniciarch, Lyciarch

• Asiarchate

• “Asiarch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• siracha

From Ancient Greek Ἀσιάρχης (Asiárkhēs).

Asiarch m (weak, genitive Asiarchen, plural Asiarchen)

1. (historical) Asiarch