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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe first principle of existing things in pre-Socratic philosophy, initially assumed to be of water.
From Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ, literally “beginning, origin”).
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- Borrowed-form mentionἀρχήgrc
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