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Phytane vs Prytane - What's the difference?

phytane | prytane |

As nouns the difference between phytane and prytane

is that phytane is a diterpenoid alkane with one more carbon than pristane while prytane is the priest who presided over a prytaneum.

phytane

English

Noun

(wikipedia phytane)
  • (organic compound) A diterpenoid alkane with one more carbon than pristane.

    • Related terms

    * phytanyl * phytene * phytyl

    prytane

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The priest who presided over a prytaneum.
  • * 1915 : Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions , Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore
    • This priest of the public hearth bore the name of king. Sometimes they gave him other titles. As he was especially the priest of the prytaneum, the Greeks preferred to call him the prytane ; sometimes they also called him the archon.
  • * 1962 : Magic, Myth, and Money , William Herbert Desmonde
    • The priest of the city hearth was called "king", "prytane"', or "archon". The term ' "prytane" was derived from the fact that he was the priest of the prytaneum, or local hearth.
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