arche

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See also: Arche, archè, arché, and -arche

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ, literally “beginning, origin”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)ki/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki

Noun

arche (countable and uncountable, plural archai)

  1. (philosophy, often italicized) The first principle of existing things in pre-Socratic philosophy, initially assumed to be of water.
    • 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 3, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
      In more modern times both the moving and the matter moved appear more complex and malleable, and less drawn from the realm of everyday experience. The substance may be dark matter and quarks rather than water or air, and the arche may be gravity or string harmonics.

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French

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French arche, borrowed from Late Latin arca, from Latin arcus.

Noun

arche f (plural arches)

  1. (architecture) arch

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French arche, semi-learned borrowing from Latin arca.

Noun

arche f (plural arches)

  1. ark (Noah's ship)
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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈar.ke/
  • Rhymes: -arke
  • Hyphenation: àr‧che

Noun

arche f

  1. plural of arca

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Noun

arche f (plural arches)

  1. (Jersey, architecture) arch

Old French

Noun

arche oblique singular, f (oblique plural arches, nominative singular arche, nominative plural arches)

  1. arch

Descendants

  • French: arche
  • → Middle English: arch, arche

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈar.xɛ/
  • Rhymes: -arxɛ
  • Syllabification: ar‧che

Noun

arche f (indeclinable)

  1. (philosophy) arche

Further reading

  • arche in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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