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English

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Etymology

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FromAncient Greekἄρχων(árkhōn), a noun use of the present participle ofἄρχω(árkhō,“to rule”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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archon (pluralarchontesorarchons)

  1. A chiefmagistrate of ancient Athens.
    • 1980, Burgess,Earthly Powers:
      Hated by thearchons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth.
  2. A person who claims the right to rule, or to exercise power or sovereign authority over other human beings.
  3. Aruler, head of state or otherleader.
    • 1922, James Joyce,Ulysses:
      But neither the midwife’s lore nor the caudlectures saved him from thearchons of Sinn Fein and their noggin of hemlock.
  4. (Gnosticism) A supernatural being subordinate to theDemiurge.
    • 1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page83:
      Their claim to totality is like the cry of thearchon Ialdabaoth that he was the Lord of the Universe and that there was nothing beyond him.

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Translations

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chief magistrate

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Anagrams

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Esperanto

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Noun

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archon

  1. H-system spelling ofarĉon

Latin

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 archon on Latin Wikipedia

Etymology

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FromAncient Greekἄρχων(árkhōn).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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archōn m (genitivearchontis);third declension

  1. archon

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singularplural
nominativearchōnarchontēs
genitivearchontisarchontum
dativearchontīarchontibus
accusativearchontemarchontēs
ablativearchontearchontibus
vocativearchōnarchontēs

Descendants

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References

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  • “archon”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “archon”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "archon", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • archon inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “archon”, inThe Perseus Project (1999)Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “archon”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “archon”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1848),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “archon”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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