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Ar⋅e⋅op⋅a⋅gus

  [ar-ee-op-uh-guhs]
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–noun
1. a hill in Athens, Greece, W of the Acropolis.
2. Greek History. the council that met on this hill, originally having wide public functions but later becoming a purely judicial body.
3. any high tribunal.
Origin:
< L < Gk Áreios págos hill of Ares
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Ar·e·op·a·gus   (ār'ē-ŏp'ə-gəs)   
n.  The highest judicial and legislative council of ancient Athens.

[Latin, from Greek Areios pagos, hill of Ares, Areopagus (where the tribunal met) : Areios, of Ares (from Arēs, Ares) + pagos, stiff mass, hill (from pēgnunai, pag-, to stick, stiffen; see pag- in Indo-European roots).]
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Areopagus 
1642, from Gk., Areios pagos "the hill of Ares," west of the Acropolis in Athens, where the highest judicial court sat, from pagos "rocky hill." Sense extended to "any important tribunal." Areopagite "member of the Areopagus court" is attested from 1382 (cf. Acts xvii.34).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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