Hiero- Definition

hīərō, hīərə
prefix
Sacred; holy.
Hierology.
American Heritage
affix
Sacred, holy.
Hierocracy.
Webster's New World

Origin of Hiero-

  • From Ancient Greek prefix ἱερo- (hiero-), from ἱερός (hieros, “sacred, holy”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek from hieros holy eis- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Hiero- Sentence Examples

  • He was the son of Pheidias, an astronomer, and was on intimate terms with, if not related to, Hiero, king of Syracuse, and Gelo his son.

  • The island was perhaps occupied by Greek settlers even before Cumae; its Eretrian and Chalcidian inhabitants abandoned it about Soo B.C. owing to an eruption, and it is said to have been deserted almost at once by the greater part of the garrison which Hiero I.

  • Thus he devised for Hiero engines of war which almost terrified the Romans, and which protracted the siege of Syracuse for three years.

  • Hiero asked him to give an illustration of his contention that a very great weight could be moved by a very small force.

  • It is believed to occupy the site of the ancient Aetna, a settlement founded by the colonists whom Hiero I.

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Words Starting With

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