arche
English
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[edit ]From Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ, literally "beginning, origin").
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[edit ]arche (countable and uncountable , plural archai )
- (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.
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[edit ]Etymology 1
[edit ]Inherited from Old French arche , borrowed from Late Latin arca , from Latin arcus .
Noun
[edit ]arche f (plural arches )
- (architecture ) arch
Etymology 2
[edit ]Inherited from Old French arche , semi-learned borrowing from Latin arca .
Noun
[edit ]arche f (plural arches )
- ark (Noah's ship)
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[edit ]- "arche", in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Italian
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[edit ]arche f
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[edit ]arche f (plural arches )
- (Jersey , architecture ) arch
Old French
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Noun
[edit ]arche oblique singular, f (oblique plural arches , nominative singular arche, nominative plural arches )
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[edit ]Polish
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[edit ]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ).
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[edit ]arche f (indeclinable )
- (philosophy ) arche
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