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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀναγνώστης (anagnṓstēs, “reader, one who reads aloud (Lat. lector)”).
Noun
anāgnōstēs m (genitive anāgnōstae); first declension
- reader (especially a slave trained to read aloud)
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
References
- “anagnostes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “anagnostes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- anagnostes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.