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archi-enUK
archi- or arch-pref.1. Chief; highest; most important: archiepiscopal.2. Earlier; primitive: archenteron.
[French archi- and Italian arci-, both from Latin archi-, from Greek arkhi-, arkh-, from arkhein, to begin, rule.]archi- combining form a variant of arch- archi- a combining form with the general sense “first, principal,” prefixed to nouns denoting things that are earliest, most basic, or bottommost (archiblast; archiphoneme; architrave); or denoting individuals who direct or have authority over others of their class, usu. named by the base noun (archimandrite; architect). Also, esp. before a vowel,arch-. Compare arch-1, arche-.[< Greek, comb. form akin to archḗ beginning, árchos leader, árchein to be the first, command]archi-enUK
archi- word element [Gr.], ancient; beginning; original; first; chief; leading.arch- , arche-archi- (arch; ark, ar'kē; ar'ki), In these combining forms ch has the sound of k.Combining forms meaning primitive or ancestral; also first, chief, extreme. [G. archē, origin, beginning, + -o-] arch- , arche- , archi- , archo-1. Combining forms meaning primordial, ancestral, first, chief, or extreme. 2. dentistry Denoting the maxillary or mandibular arch. [G. archē, origin, beginning]archi- see ARCH-.
archi- prefix denoting bow-shaped.ThesaurusSeearch- |