ἀρχῆθεν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “a beginning, origin”) +‎ -θεν (-then, “a suffix added to nouns to form adverbs of place from which: from”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.kʰɛ̂ː.tʰen/ → /arˈçi.θen/ → /arˈçi.θen/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰɛ̂ː.tʰen/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /arˈkʰe̝.tʰen/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /arˈçi.θen/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arˈçi.θen/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /arˈçi.θen/

Adverb

ἀρχῆθεν • (arkhêthen)

1. from the beginning, from of old
2. (with negative) not at all

   κρέσσον ... ἀρχῆθεν μὴ ἐλθεῖν

   krésson ... arkhêthen mḕ eltheîn

   more powerful... not to have gone at all

Further reading

• ἀρχῆθεν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀρχῆθεν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἀρχῆθεν - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• “ἀρχῆθεν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beginning idem, page 71.