ἀρχός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

See ἄρχω (árkhō, “I begin, I am first, I rule”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.kʰós/ → /arˈxos/ → /arˈxos/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰós/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /arˈkʰos/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /arˈxos/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arˈxos/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /arˈxos/

Noun

ἀρχός • (arkhós) m (genitive ἀρχοῦ); second declension

1. ruler, leader, prince

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἀρχός; τοῦ ἀρχοῦ

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀρχός	τὼ ἀρχώ	οἱ ἀρχοί
Genitive	τοῦ ἀρχοῦ	τοῖν ἀρχοῖν	τῶν ἀρχῶν
Dative	τῷ ἀρχῷ	τοῖν ἀρχοῖν	τοῖς ἀρχοῖς
Accusative	τὸν ἀρχόν	τὼ ἀρχώ	τοὺς ἀρχούς
Vocative	ἀρχέ	ἀρχώ	ἀρχοί
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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 (© 2006–2017)
• ἀρχός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter