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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”), the root of ἄρχω (árkhō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ór.kʰa.mos/ → /ˈor.xa.mos/ → /ˈor.xa.mos/
Noun
ὄρχᾰμος • (órkhamos) m (genitive ὀρχάμου); second declension
- (Epic) chief, leader
Usage notes
Occurs in Homer only in the phrases ὄρχαμος ἀνδρῶν (órkhamos andrôn, “leader of men”) and ὄρχαμε λαῶν (órkhame laôn, “O leader of people”). Attested only in the singular.
Declension
Further reading
- “ὄρχαμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄρχαμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὄρχαμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὄρχαμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press