ἀρχῆθεν
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “a beginning, origin”) + -θεν (-then, “a suffix added to nouns to form adverbs of place from which: from”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ar.kʰɛ̂ː.tʰen/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /arˈkʰe̝.tʰen/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /arˈçi.θen/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /arˈçi.θen/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /arˈçi.θen/
Adverb
[edit]ἀρχῆθεν • (arkhêthen)
- from the beginning, from of old
- (with negative) not at all
Further reading
[edit]- ἀρχῆθεν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀρχῆθεν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀρχῆθεν”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “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.