-arch

suffix
/ɑːk/UK/ɑɹk/CA

Etymology

From Late Latin -archa, from Latin -archēs, from Ancient Greek -άρχης (-árkhēs), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule, government”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”).

  1. derived from *h₂ergʰ- — “to begin, rule, command
  2. derived from -άρχης
  3. derived from -archēs
  4. derived from -archa

Definitions

  1. leading, leader

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -arch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA