ἀρχεῖον

Neuter of *ἀρχεῖος (arkheîos, “related to office”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “office, government, rule”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”).

ἀρχεῖον • (arkheîon) n (genitive ἀρχείου); second declension

1. public building, town hall
   1. (in the plural) archives, public records

• → Latin: archīvum (see there for further descendants)
• → Hebrew: ארכיון (arkhiyón)
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܟܵܐ (arkā)

• “ἀρχεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀρχεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀρχεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀρχεῖον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hall idem, page 381.
  • presidency idem, page 637.
  • residency idem, page 701.
  • town hall idem, page 884.
• “archive”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.