Luminary

A luminary ( Greek κορυφή koryphé , German 'summit, crown' ) originally referred to someone who is at the top 'or a' leader '.

Meanings

The term is used in different contexts: In the Greek tragedy of antiquity , the choir leader is referred to as a luminary. This is where the term for the first solo dancer is used, which is particularly common in the Austrian-speaking world. A luminary is also a person who excels through exceptional achievements: an authority , an expert , a capacity, a specialist in a particular subject.

Coryphaeus is also the nickname of Jupiter in Wilhelm Vollmer's dictionary of mythology from 1874.

See also

• Doyen

Web links

Wiktionary: luminary  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• TRUE - Correct German made easy . Wissenmedia Verlag, ISBN 978-3-577-07566-4 , p. 293 ( limited preview in Google book search)
• Luminary . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 11, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p.  520 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Duden - The great foreign dictionary. Origin and meaning of foreign words . 1994
2. ↑ dtv lexicon. Volume 10: Kako-Kre. dtv, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-423-03060-7 , p. 278.
3. ^ Wilhelm Vollmer: Dictionary of Mythology. Stuttgart 1874, p. 147 ( luminary at Zeno.org .).