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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “chief”) + τέκτων (téktōn, “builder”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar.kʰi.ték.tɔːn/ → /ar.çiˈtek.ton/ → /ar.çiˈtek.ton/
Noun
ἀρχιτέκτων • (arkhitéktōn) m (genitive ἀρχιτέκτονος); third declension
- chief constructor, master builder, architect
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ἀρχιτέκτων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀρχιτέκτων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀρχιτέκτων 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
- ἀρχιτέκτων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G753 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.