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XENOCRATES

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized)

Pronounced: ze-NAH-kra-teez (English)   [key]

From the Greek name Ξενοκρατης (Xenokrates) which meant "foreign power", derived from ξενος (xenos) "foreign, strange" and κρατος (kratos) "power". This was the name of a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher.
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