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logothete Hist.|ˈlɒgəθiːt|
[ad. med.L. logotheta, ad. Gr. λογοθέτης, primarily ‘one who audits accounts’ (L. & Sc.), f. λόγο-ς account + θε-, stem of τιθέναι to set + agent-suffix -της.]
The designation of various functionaries under the Byzantine emperors; applied esp. (also in the Norman kingdom of Sicily) to a high official corresponding to the ‘chancellor’ of Western kingdoms.
[c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 164/35 Logotheta, ᵹemotman.] 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. liii. (1869) III. 286 Which the great logothete or chancellor of the empire was directed to prepare. 1862T. L. Kington Fredk. II, II. xviii. 446 Logothete of Sicily, and Protonotary. 1864Kingsley Rom. & Teut. viii. 217 He can talk Latin, and perhaps Greek, as well as one of those accursed man-eating Grendels, a Roman lawyer, or a logothete from Ravenna. |