arche

From Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ, literally “beginning, origin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)ki/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki

arche (countable and uncountable, plural archai)

1. (philosophy, often italicized) The first principle of existing things in pre-Socratic philosophy, initially assumed to be of water.
   • 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 3, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:

     In more modern times both the moving and the matter moved appear more complex and malleable, and less drawn from the realm of everyday experience. The substance may be dark matter and quarks rather than water or air, and the arche may be gravity or string harmonics.

• arche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• REACH, acher, chare, chear, rache, reach

• IPA^(key): /aʁʃ/

Inherited from Old French arche, borrowed from Late Latin arca, from Latin arcus.

arche f (plural arches)

1. (architecture) arch

Inherited from Old French arche, semi-learned borrowing from Latin arca.

arche f (plural arches)

1. ark (Noah's ship)

• arche de Noé

• “arche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ke/
• Rhymes: -arke
• Hyphenation: àr‧che

arche f

1. plural of arca

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arche f (plural arches)

1. (Jersey, architecture) arch

arche oblique singular, f (oblique plural arches, nominative singular arche, nominative plural arches)

1. arch

• French: arche
• → Middle English: arch, arche
  • English: arch

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.xɛ/
• Rhymes: -arxɛ
• Syllabification: ar‧che

arche f (indeclinable)

1. (philosophy) arche

• arche in Polish dictionaries at PWN