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French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἑταῖρα (hetaîra), feminine of ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “companion”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hétaïre f (plural hétaïres)
- (historical) hetaera
1895, R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis:Nous sommes aujourd’hui bien loin de cet âge où la vie sexuelle se manifestait dans l’idolâtrie sodomite, dans la vie populaire, dans la législation, et dans la pratique du culte des anciens Grecs, sans parler du culte du Phallus et de Priape chez les Athéniens et les Babyloniens, ni des Bacchanales de l’antique Rome, ni de la situation privilégiée que les hétaïres ont occupée chez ces peuples.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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