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here-téma

  • noun [ masculine ]
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here-téma, -týma, an; m.
A leader of an army, of a people, a ruler, general
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  • Se heretéma cyning selfa

    the leader, the king himself [Theodoric ],

    • Bt. Met. Fox 1. 63; Met. 1, 31.
  • Se heretýma, caldéa cyning.

    • Cd. 205; Th. 253, 30; Dan. 603.
  • Ðá cwæþ hé hwæs sunu is hit ðá cwæþ se bisceop mínes heretéman

    then said he 'whose son is it ?' Then said the bishop 'my prince's' [?]

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    • Shrn. 130, 9.
  • Hé wearþ tó heretéman

    he became general,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 20; El. 10.
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v.  -tíma.
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