thranite
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek θρανίτης (thranítēs), from θρᾶνος (thrânos, “bench”).
Noun edit
thranite (plural thranites)
- (historical, Ancient Greece) One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.
Alternative forms edit
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “thranite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)