ἀρχεῖον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Neuter of *ἀρχεῖος (arkheîos, “related to office”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “office, government, rule”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ar.kʰêː.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /arˈkʰi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /arˈçi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /arˈçi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /arˈçi.on/
Noun
ἀρχεῖον • (arkheîon) n (genitive ἀρχείου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἀρχεῖον tò arkheîon |
τὼ ἀρχείω tṑ arkheíō |
τᾰ̀ ἀρχεῖᾰ tằ arkheîă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀρχείου toû arkheíou |
τοῖν ἀρχείοιν toîn arkheíoin |
τῶν ἀρχείων tôn arkheíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἀρχείῳ tōî arkheíōi |
τοῖν ἀρχείοιν toîn arkheíoin |
τοῖς ἀρχείοις toîs arkheíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἀρχεῖον tò arkheîon |
τὼ ἀρχείω tṑ arkheíō |
τᾰ̀ ἀρχεῖᾰ tằ arkheîă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀρχεῖον arkheîon |
ἀρχείω arkheíō |
ἀρχεῖᾰ arkheîă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: archīvum (see there for further descendants)
- → Hebrew: ארכיון (arkhiyón)
- → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܟܵܐ (arkā)
Further reading
- “ἀρχεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀρχεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀρχεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀρχεῖον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- hall idem, page 381.
- presidency idem, page 637.
- residency idem, page 701.
- town hall idem, page 884.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “archive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.