Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prefix of Greek origin, the original form of
arch- , first, chief. Seearch- .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A prefix signifying
chief ,arch . In (Biol.) and (Anat.) it usually meansprimitive ,original ,ancestral .
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- prefix
chief ,highest , mostimportant - prefix
earlier ,primitive
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek prefix ἀρχι- (arkhi-), from ἄρχω (arkhō, "I begin, lead, rule, govern").
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