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Webster 1913 Edition

[L.,

archi-

, Gr.

ἀρχι-

, a prefix which is from the same root as

ἄρχειν

to be first, to begin;

ἀρχη

the first place, beginning;

ἀρχόσ

chief. Cf. AS.

arce-

erce-

, OHG.

erzi-

, G.

erz-

A prefix signifying chief, arch;

as,

archi

tect,

archi

episcopal

. In

(Biol.)

and

(Anat.)

it usually means primitive, original, ancestral;

as,

archi

pterygium, the primitive fin or wing