English Explanatory Dictionary

catepan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The governor of a catepanate such as the Catepanate of Italy, a Byzantine province.

Word forms

catepan catepans catapan

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κατεπάνω (katepánō, literally “[the one] placed at the top, or the topmost”).

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