ἀρχός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
See ἄρχω (árkhō, “I begin, I am first, I rule”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ar.kʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /arˈkʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /arˈxos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /arˈxos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /arˈxos/
Noun
ἀρχός • (arkhós) m (genitive ἀρχοῦ); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ἀρχός ho arkhós |
τὼ ἀρχώ tṑ arkhṓ |
οἱ ἀρχοί hoi arkhoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀρχοῦ toû arkhoû |
τοῖν ἀρχοῖν toîn arkhoîn |
τῶν ἀρχῶν tôn arkhôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἀρχῷ tōî arkhōî |
τοῖν ἀρχοῖν toîn arkhoîn |
τοῖς ἀρχοῖς toîs arkhoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ἀρχόν tòn arkhón |
τὼ ἀρχώ tṑ arkhṓ |
τοὺς ἀρχούς toùs arkhoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀρχέ arkhé |
ἀρχώ arkhṓ |
ἀρχοί arkhoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Related terms
- ἄρχων (árkhōn)
Further reading
- “ἀρχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀρχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀρχός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀρχός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀρχός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀρχός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “ἀρχός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- ἀρχός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011