ἀρχῆθεν

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “a beginning, origin”) +‎ -θεν (-then, “a suffix added to nouns to form adverbs of place from which: from”)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰɛ̂ː.tʰen/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /arˈkʰe̝.tʰen/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /arˈçi.θen/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arˈçi.θen/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /arˈçi.θen/

Adverb

ἀρχῆθεν • (arkhêthen)

from the beginning, from of old
(with negative) not at all
κρέσσον ... ἀρχῆθεν μὴ ἐλθεῖν
krésson ... arkhêthen mḕ eltheîn
more powerful... not to have gone at all

Further reading

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 (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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- beginning idem, page 71.

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