ἄρχω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἄρχω
ἄρξω
ἦρξα
ἦρχα
ἦργμαι
ἤρχθην
Structure:
ά̓ρχ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Etym.: pf. pass. h)=rgmai only in mid. sense
Sense
- I am first
- I begin
- I lead, rule, govern, command
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- ἐὰν δὲ ἀπὸ τῆσ μακρᾶσ ἄρχηται, τροχαῖοσ, καὶ ἔστι μαλακώτεροσ θατέρου καὶ ἀγεννέστεροσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1714)
- "ὁ γὰρ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἐρωτικὸσ ἐκεῖ γενόμενοσ καὶ τοῖσ καλοῖσ ὁμιλήσασ, ᾗ θέμισ, ἐπτέρωται καὶ κατωργίασται καὶ διατελεῖ περὶ τὸν αὑτοῦ θεὸν ἄνω χορεύων καὶ συμπεριπολῶν, ἄχρι οὗ πάλιν εἰσ τοὺσ Σελήνησ καὶ Ἀφροδίτησ λειμῶνασ ἐλθὼν καὶ καταδαρθὼν ἑτέρασ ἄρχηται γενέσεωσ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 20 2:12)
- τοιγαροῦν ὑπακουέτω, μὴ πρὸσ ὕβριν, ἀλλ’ ἵν’ ἄρχηται· (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 160:2)
- "τῶν μαλακοστράκων ὀχεύονται, φησί, κάραβοι, ἀστακοί, καρῖδεσ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα, ὥσπερ καὶ τὰ ὀπισθουρητικὰ τῶν τετραπόδων, ὀχεύονται δὲ τοῦ ἐάροσ ἀρχομένου πρὸσ τῇ γῇ ἤδη γὰρ ὦπται ἡ ὀχεία πάντων τῶν τοιούτων, ἐνιαχοῦ δὲ ὅταν τὰ σῦκα ἄρχηται πεπαίνεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 65 1:1)
- καὶ τότε ἄρχων ἄρχει ἀλαθέωσ κατὰ δίκαν, ὅταν καὶ ἄρχηται ὑπό τε νόμων καὶ ἐφόρων ἢ οἱοῖ ἂν ἄλλοι ἐν πόλει ἄρχοντεσ ὦσιν. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 41 1:3)
Synonyms
-
I am first
-
I begin
- καθηγέομαι (to begin)
- ἐπάρχω (to begin)
- ἐνίστημι (to begin)
- ἐξάρχω (to begin with, make a beginning of)
- ὑπάρχω ( to make a beginning of, begin)
- ὑπάρχω (to begin, make a beginning, )
- ἀρχηγετέω (to make a beginning)
- κατάρχω (to make a beginning, to begin, is beginning)
- προενάρχομαι (to begin before)
- πρόειμι (to pass on to, begin)
- κῑνέω (I begin, cause)
- ἐνάρχομαι (to begin the offering)
- ἀναμέλπω (to begin to sing)
- ἐξάρχω (to begin, address)
- ὑπάρχω ( to begin doing)
- ὁρμάω (starts, started, to begin)
- ἀνερυθριάω (to begin to blush, blush up)
- ὑποπεινάω (to be hungry, to begin to be hungry)
- κατάρχω (to make beginning of, to lead, to begin)
-
I lead
Derived
- ἀπάρχομαι (to make a beginning, to begin the sacrifice with, by cutting off)
- ἐνάρχομαι (to begin the offering)
- ἐξάρχω (to begin with, make a beginning of, to begin)
- ἐπάρχω (to be governor of, to rule in addition to, to begin)
- κατάρχω (to make beginning of, to lead, to begin)
- προενάρχομαι (to begin before)
- προκατάρχομαι (to begin, before, to begin hostilities)
- προσυπάρχω (to exist besides, besides I could)
- προυπάρχω (to be beforehand in, to make a beginning of, to begin with)
- συνάρχω (to rule jointly with, to be a colleague in office, a colleague)
- ὑπάρχω (to begin, make a beginning, )