ἀρχαῖος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning”) +‎ -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

Adjective

ἀρχαῖος • (arkhaîos) m (feminine ἀρχαία, neuter ἀρχαῖον); first/second declension

1. Pertaining to the beginning
2. ancient, primeval

Declension

Derived terms

• ἀρχαιολογίᾱ (arkhaiologíā)
• ἀρχαιότης (arkhaiótēs)

See also

• γεραιός (geraiós)
• παλαιός (palaiós)

Further reading

• “ἀρχαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀρχαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀρχαῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἀρχαῖος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀρχαῖος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G744 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ancient idem, page 29.
  • antiquated idem, page 32.
  • antique idem, page 32.
  • by-gone idem, page 107.
  • date idem, page 196.
  • disuse idem, page 243.
  • early idem, page 258.
  • effete idem, page 262.
  • fashion idem, page 308.
  • former idem, page 339.
  • hackneyed idem, page 380.
  • immemorial idem, page 417.
  • obsolete idem, page 567.
  • old idem, page 572.
  • old-fashioned idem, page 572.
  • original idem, page 579.
  • played out idem, page 619.
  • primeval idem, page 641.
  • primitive idem, page 641.
  • primordial idem, page 641.
  • pristine idem, page 642.
  • stale idem, page 809.
  • superannuated idem, page 838.
  • threadbare idem, page 869.
  • trite idem, page 896.
  • unfashionable idem, page 917.