archon

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἄρχων (árkhōn), a noun use of the present participle of ἄρχω (árkhō, to rule).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)kən/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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archon (plural archontes or archons)

  1. A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
    • 1980, Burgess, Earthly Powers:
      Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth.
  2. A person who claims the right to rule, or to exercise power or sovereign authority over other human beings.
  3. A ruler, head of state or other leader.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
      But neither the midwife’s lore nor the caudlectures saved him from the archons of Sinn Fein and their noggin of hemlock.
  4. (Gnosticism) A supernatural being subordinate to the Demiurge.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 83:
      Their claim to totality is like the cry of the archon Ialdabaoth that he was the Lord of the Universe and that there was nothing beyond him.

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Esperanto

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Noun

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archon

  1. H-system spelling of arĉon

Latin

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 archon on Latin Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἄρχων (árkhōn).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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archōn m (genitive archontis); third declension

  1. archon

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative archōn archontēs
Genitive archontis archontum
Dative archontī archontibus
Accusative archontem archontēs
Ablative archonte archontibus
Vocative archōn archontēs

Descendants

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  • Catalan: arcont
  • French: archonte
  • Italian: arconte
  • Portuguese: arconte
  • Romanian: arhonte
  • Spanish: arconte

References

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  • archon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • archon”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • archon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • archon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • archon”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
  • archon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • archon”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • archon”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin