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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Common Turkic *ārïk (“aryk, ditch; river, creek, brook”), from Proto-Turkic *ār-~*ar-~*ïr- (“to flow”), whence also Azerbaijani irmaq (“river”).
Cognates
Ottoman Turkish آرق (arq), Turkish ark, dialectal Turkish arığ, Turkmen āryk, Uzbek ariq, Kazakh арық (aryq), Kyrgyz арык (arık), Southern Altai арык (arïk, “irrigation canal”), Bashkir арыҡ (arıq), Tatar арык (arıq). Borrowed from Turkic: Adyghe арыкъ (arəq), Russian арык (aryk), English aryk.
Noun
arx (definite accusative arxı, plural arxlar)
- irrigation ditch
- gutter
- Synonym: qanov
Declension
Descendants
References
- ^ Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, pages 187-189
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard, hold, lock”). Cognates include Latin arca (“chest, box”), arceō (“I defend”), arcānus (“hidden, secret”), arcera (“covered carriage for sick people”), Old Armenian արգել (argel, “obstacle”) and Ancient Greek ἀρκέω (arkéō).
Pronunciation
Noun
arx f (genitive arcis); third declension
- stronghold, castle, citadel, fortress, acropolis
- Vergil, Aeneid, 2.56:
- ... Trōiaque, nunc stārēs, Priamīque arx alta, manērēs.
- ... and Troy, you would now be standing, and Priam's mighty citadel still endure.
- (figuratively) defence, protection, refuge, bulwark
- tyranny (with arx as the abode of tyrants)
- (metonymically) height, summit, pinnacle, top, peak (since castles were often built on heights)
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
References
- “arx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arx in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- arx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “arx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “arx”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- “arx”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin