Talk:exilarch

RFV discussion: January–April 2017
"The head of a community of Jews in the diaspora." This was originally entered as "The term applied by Greeks to the head of a community of Jews in the diaspora"; so the question is whether it can be found in English rather than in Greek. Equinox ◑ 15:23, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * It seems very unlikely to be an Ancient Greek word since exile is a Latin word. According to, the Ancient Greek word was . As for the English word, the Wikipedia article has many references, including some that use the word in their title, so it seems to be real. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 16:43, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Google scholar has a number of hits for the term, as does google books. I agree it is unlikely to be Greek, but it is clearly a word, most often, but not always, capitalized. Kiwima (talk) 18:55, 5 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Clearly citeable, and thus RFV passed, but better wording of the senses and addition of quotations would still be helpful. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 04:30, 14 April 2017 (UTC)