archi-

American  

1. a combining form with the general sense “first, principal,” that is prefixed to nouns denoting things that are earliest, most basic, or bottommost (archiblast; archiphoneme; architrave ); or denoting individuals who direct or have authority over others of their class, usually named by the base noun (archimandrite; architect ).

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archi- British  

combining form

1. a variant of arch-

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Etymology

Origin of archi-

< Greek, combining form akin to archḗ beginning, árchos leader, árchein to be the first, command

Example Sentences

It was that same morning, I think, that I went in search of the old houses of Tours; for the town con- tains several goodly specimens of the domestic archi- tecture of the past.

From A Little Tour in France by James, Henry

Few archi- tects have had such a chance, and M. Viollet-le-Duc must have been the envy of the whole restoring fra- ternity.

From A Little Tour in France by James, Henry