English Explanatory Dictionary

geomori

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. landowners
  2. those who own a portion of land
  3. class of oligarchic landowners descending from the first Corinthian settlers who in 733 BC, according to the chronology of Thucydides, had founded Syracuse

Word forms

geomori gamoroi geomoroi

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γεωμόροι (geōmóroi), ultimately from γεω- (geō-, “earth”) + μέρος (méros, “part, share, portion”), whence the latter comes from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to assign, allot”). Doublet of gamoroi.

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