ἀρχιτέκτων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἀρχι- ‎(arkhi-, “chief”) +‎ τέκτων ‎(téktōn, “builder”)

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /arkʰitéktɔ͜ɔn/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /arkʰitɛ́ktoːn/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /arxitékton/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /arçitéxton/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /aɾçitéxton/

Noun

ἀρχιτέκτων • ‎(arkhitéktōn) m ‎(genitive ἀρχιτέκτονος); third declension

1. chief constructor, master builder, architect

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ἀρχιτέκτων; τοῦ ἀρχιτέκτονος

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀρχιτέκτων	τὼ ἀρχιτέκτονε	οἱ ἀρχιτέκτονες
Genitive	τοῦ ἀρχιτέκτονος	τοῖν ἀρχιτεκτόνοιν	τῶν ἀρχιτεκτόνων
Dative	τῷ ἀρχιτέκτονῐ	τοῖν ἀρχιτεκτόνοιν	τοῖς ἀρχιτέκτοσῐ
Accusative	τὸν ἀρχιτέκτονᾰ	τὼ ἀρχιτέκτονε	τοὺς ἀρχιτέκτονᾰς
Vocative	ἀρχιτέκτον	ἀρχιτέκτονε	ἀρχιτέκτονες
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: architect
• Greek: αρχιτέκτονας ‎(architéktonas)
• Latin: architectōn, architectus
• Polish: architekt
• Russian: архитектор ‎(arxitéktor)

References

• ἀρχιτέκτων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀρχιτέκτων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀρχιτέκτων» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἀρχιτέκτων» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G753”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • architect idem, page 38.
  • author idem, page 53.
  • manager idem, page 511.