ἀρχιτέκτων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

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

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰi.ték.tɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰiˈtek.ton/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ar.çiˈtek.ton/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ar.çiˈtek.ton/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ar.çiˈtek.ton/

Noun

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

1. chief constructor, master builder, architect

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ἀρχιτέκτων; τたうοおみくろんῦ ἀρχιτέκτονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀρχιτέκτων ho arkhitéktōn	τたうὼ ἀρχιτέκτονε tṑ arkhitéktone	οおみくろんἱ ἀρχιτέκτονες hoi arkhitéktones
Genitive	τたうοおみくろんῦ ἀρχιτέκτονος toû arkhitéktonos	τたうοおみくろんῖνにゅー ἀρχιτεκτόνοιν toîn arkhitektónoin	τたうῶνにゅー ἀρχιτεκτόνων tôn arkhitektónōn
Dative	τたうῷ ἀρχιτέκτονῐ tôi arkhitéktoni	τたうοおみくろんῖνにゅー ἀρχιτεκτόνοιν toîn arkhitektónoin	τたうοおみくろんῖς ἀρχιτέκτοσῐ / ἀρχιτέκτοσῐνにゅー toîs arkhitéktosi(n)
Accusative	τたうὸνにゅー ἀρχιτέκτονᾰ tòn arkhitéktona	τたうὼ ἀρχιτέκτονε tṑ arkhitéktone	τたうοおみくろんὺς ἀρχιτέκτονᾰς toùs arkhitéktonas
Vocative	ἀρχιτέκτον arkhitékton	ἀρχιτέκτονε arkhitéktone	ἀρχιτέκτονες arkhitéktones
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αρχιτέκτονας (architéktonas)
• → English: architect
• → Latin: architectus
  • → Catalan: arquitecte
  • → French: architecte
  • → Friulian: architet
  • → Galician: arquitecto
  • → Italian: architetto
    • → Neapolitan: archetetto
  • → Mirandese: arquiteto
  • → Occitan: arquitècte
  • → Piedmontese: architet
  • → Polish: architekt
  • → Portuguese: arquiteto
  • → Romagnol: architèt
  • → Romanian: arhitect
  • → Russian: архите́ктор (arxitéktor)
  • → Spanish: arquitecto

References

• “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 (2006–2024)
• G753 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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.