<entry id="2270619" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2831870</ent_seq>
<r_ele>
<reb>ヘタイラ</reb>
</r_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ヘタエラ</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<misc>&hist;</misc>
<gloss>hetaira (prostitute in ancient Greece)</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2017-04-06 01:10:04" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Scott</upd_name>
<upd_refs>wiki</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2017-04-06 20:13:01" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>johan</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Johan Råde</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Is this really a Japanese word?
Or is it just the katakana transcription of a Greek word?</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2017-04-06 22:24:02" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>The latter, in my view. 

It's one of the reasons I'm sometimes reluctant to approve entries that only cite Wikipedia as a reference.
JMdict isn't an encyclopedia.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2017-04-06 23:00:48" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Scott</upd_name>
<upd_detl>I think that it should be there for the same reason that it's in English dictionaries. (e.g. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hetaera). There are plenty of hits on Google. Where do you draw the line at what is a "true word" or "merely a transcription." Is エレベーター also not a word? 

Encyclopedias are a compendium of knowledge. An encyclopedia would explain what everything about hetairai and their history, as Wikipedia does. We don't do this. I briefly glossed the word, as might be done in an English dictionary, because it might be unfamiliar to many readers. This is a far cry from an encyclopedic entry, which would be at least a hundred words.

As for using Wikipedia as a sole source, I usually also do a search on Google. If a word has an entry on the Japanese Wiki, it's a good indication that it has a certain degree of notability. I find that Wikipedia is usually a reliable source.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2017-04-17 09:43:55" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>The リーダーズ+プラス (EJ) dictionary has ヘタイラ as one of the Japanese glosses of hetaera, so I'm prepared to accept it as a Japanese term, albeit rather rare.
Other glosses were 教養ある遊女, 高級娼婦, めかけ, 売春婦</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-06-04 20:53:01" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;hetaira (ancient Greek prostitute)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;hist;&lt;/misc&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;hetaira (prostitute in ancient Greece)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-06-04 21:55:29" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>