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Original entry ↗prefix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA title in a hierarchy which indicates a higher degree of rank than its root word. · Leading, foremost, primary, or principal. · Intensely, extremely, or exceptionally. · Powerful, potent.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ-der.? Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō) Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (arkhi-)der. Latin archi-bor. Old English arċe- Middle English arch- English arch- From Middle English arch-, arche-, from Old English arċe-, ærċe-, erċe- (“arch-”), borrowed from Latin archi-, this stemming from Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (arkhi-).
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