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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient, old-fashioned”) + -της (-tēs, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar.kʰai̯.ó.tɛːs/ → /ar.çɛˈo.tis/ → /ar.çeˈo.tis/
Noun
ἀρχαιότης • (arkhaiótēs) f (genitive ἀρχαιότητος); third declension
- antiquity, old-fashionedness
- simplicity, pristine state
- ancient history
- antiquity, ancient times
- (Byzantine) advanced age of a person
Declension
Further reading
- “ἀρχαιότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀρχαιότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀρχαιότης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἀρχαιότης in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.