different between archaic vs archon

English

Alternative forms

• archæic (old-fashioned)
• archaeic (rare or old-fashioned)
• archaïc
• archaick (obsolete)

Etymology

From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ??????? (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ???? (arkh?, “beginning, origin”), from ???? (árkh?, “I am first”), from ???? (árkh?, “I begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erg?- (“to begin, rule, command”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??.?ke?.?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??.?ke?.?k/

Noun

archaic (plural archaics)

1. (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American?paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
   • 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:

     [...] Archaic Stage [...] the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.

2. (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
   • 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:

     [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.

Adjective

archaic (comparative more archaic, superlative most archaic)

1. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
2. (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
3. (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period

Synonyms

• (old-fashioned): dated, obsolete, old fashioned; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

Derived terms

• archaically, archaism, archaicy

Related terms

Translations

References

• archaic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “archaic”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
• The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 1998

Anagrams

• arachic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (árkh?n), a noun use of the present participle of ???? (árkh?, “to rule”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)k?n/

Noun

archon (plural archontes or archons)

1. A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
2. A person who claims the right to rule, or to exercise power or sovereign authority over other human beings.
3. A ruler, head of state or other leader.
4. (Gnosticism) A supernatural being subordinate to the Demiurge.

Related terms

• archaeo-
• archaic
• archaism
• archeo-
• archive
• -archy

Translations

Further reading

• archon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• archon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• archon at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Anchor, Charon, achorn, anchor, noarch, rancho

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (árkh?n).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.k?o?n/, [?ärk?o?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.kon/, [??rk?n]

Noun

arch?n m (genitive archontis); third declension

1. archon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: arcont
• Italian: arconte
• Portuguese: arconte
• Spanish: arconte

References

• archon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• archon in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• archon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• archon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• archon in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• archon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• archon in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• archon in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin