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Webster 1913 Edition
Archon
Ar′chon
,Noun.
[L.
archon
, Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK], ruler, chief magistrate, p. pr. of [GREEK] to be first, to rule.] (Antiq.)
One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preëminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates.
– Ar-chon′tic
, Adj.
Webster 1828 Edition
Archon
'ARCHON
,Noun.
The archons in Greece were chief magistrates chosen, after the death of Codrus, from the most illustrious families, to superintend civil and religious concerns. They were nine in number; the first was properly the archon; the second was called king; the third, polemarch, or general of the forces. The other six were called thesmothetae, or legislators.
Definition 2024
archon
archon
English
Noun
archon (plural archontes or archons)
- A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
- 1980: Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth. (Burgess, Earthly Powers)
- A ruler, head of state or other leader.
- 1922: But neither the midwife’s lore nor the caudlectures saved him from the archons of Sinn Fein and their noggin of hemlock. (Joyce, Ulysses)
- (Gnosticism) A supernatural being subordinate to the Demiurge.
Related terms
Translations
chief magistrate
External links
- archon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- archon in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- archon at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἄρχων (árkhōn).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈar.kʰoːn/
Noun
archōn m (genitive archontis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | archōn | archōntēs |
| genitive | archōntis | archōntum |
| dative | archōntī | archōntibus |
| accusative | archōntem | archōntēs |
| ablative | archōnte | archōntibus |
| vocative | archōn | archōntēs |
References
- archon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- archon in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ARCHON in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “archon”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- archon in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- archon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- archon in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- archon in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin