navarch
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Etymology edit
From Latin navarchus, from Ancient Greek ναύαρχος (naúarkhos, “leader of the ships”), corresponding to navy + -arch.
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Noun edit
navarch (plural navarchs)
- (historical, Ancient Greece) The commander of a fleet.
- 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
- The commander of a fleet was called Navarch
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- “navarch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.