ἀρχιτέκτων

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Ancient GreekEdit

EtymologyEdit

ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “chief”) +‎ τέκτων (téktōn, “builder”)

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.kʰi.ték.tɔːn/ → /ar.xiˈtek.ton/ → /ar.çiˈtek.ton/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰi.ték.tɔːn/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰiˈtɛk.ton/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ar.xiˈtek.ton/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ar.çiˈtek.ton/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ar.çiˈtek.ton/

NounEdit

ἀρχιτέκτων • (arkhitéktōn) m (genitive ἀρχιτέκτονος); third declension

1. chief constructor, master builder, architect

InflectionEdit

Third declension of ὁ ἀρχιτέκτων; τοῦ ἀρχιτέκτονος

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀρχιτέκτων	τὼ ἀρχιτέκτονε	οἱ ἀρχιτέκτονες
Genitive	τοῦ ἀρχιτέκτονος	τοῖν ἀρχιτεκτόνοιν	τῶν ἀρχιτεκτόνων
Dative	τῷ ἀρχιτέκτονῐ	τοῖν ἀρχιτεκτόνοιν	τοῖς ἀρχιτέκτοσῐ
Accusative	τὸν ἀρχιτέκτονᾰ	τὼ ἀρχιτέκτονε	τοὺς ἀρχιτέκτονᾰς
Vocative	ἀρχιτέκτον	ἀρχιτέκτονε	ἀρχιτέκτονες
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

DescendantsEdit

• English: architect
• Greek: αρχιτέκτονας (architéktonas)
• Latin: architectōn, architectus
• Polish: architekt
• Russian: архите́ктор (arxitéktor)

ReferencesEdit

• ἀρχιτέκτων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀρχιτέκτων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀρχιτέκτων» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἀρχιτέκτων» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2017)
• “G753”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • architect idem, page 38.
  • author idem, page 53.
  • manager idem, page 511.