ἀρχεῖον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Neuter of *ἀρχεῖος (arkheîos, “related to office”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “office, government, rule”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.kʰêː.on/ → /arˈçi.on/ → /arˈçi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰêː.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /arˈkʰi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /arˈçi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arˈçi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /arˈçi.on/

Noun

ἀρχεῖον • (arkheîon) n (genitive ἀρχείου); second declension

1. public building, town hall
   1. (in the plural) archives, public records

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἀρχεῖον tò arkheîon	τὼ ἀρχείω tṑ arkheíō	τᾰ̀ ἀρχεῖᾰ tằ arkheîă
Genitive	τοῦ ἀρχείου toû arkheíou	τοῖν ἀρχείοιν toîn arkheíoin	τῶν ἀρχείων tôn arkheíōn
Dative	τῷ ἀρχείῳ tôi arkheíōi	τοῖν ἀρχείοιν toîn arkheíoin	τοῖς ἀρχείοις toîs arkheíois
Accusative	τὸ ἀρχεῖον tò arkheîon	τὼ ἀρχείω tṑ arkheíō	τᾰ̀ ἀρχεῖᾰ tằ arkheîă
Vocative	ἀρχεῖον arkheîon	ἀρχείω arkheíō	ἀρχεῖᾰ arkheîă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of τὸ ἀρχεῖον; τοῦ ἀρχείου (Attic)

Descendants

• → Latin: archīvum (see there for further descendants)
• → Hebrew: ארכיון (arkhiyón)
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܟܵܐ (arkā)

Further reading

• “ἀρχεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀρχεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀρχεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀρχεῖον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hall idem, page 381.
  • presidency idem, page 637.
  • residency idem, page 701.
  • town hall idem, page 884.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “archive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.