arch onとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• arkhon

語源

From Ancient Greek ἄρχων (árkhōn), a noun use of the present participle of ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈɑː(ɹ)kən/

名詞

archon (plural archontes or archons)

1. A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
   • 1980, Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth.

2. A person who claims the right to rule, or to exercise power or sovereign authority over other human beings.
3. A ruler, head of state or other leader.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     But neither the midwife’s lore nor the caudlectures saved him from the archons of Sinn Fein and their noggin of hemlock.

4. (Christianity, Gnosticism) A supernatural ruler of the cosmos.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 83:

     Their claim to totality is like the cry of the archon Ialdabaoth that he was the Lord of the Universe and that there was nothing beyond him.

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• “archon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “archon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “archon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Anchor, Charon, achorn, anchor, noarch, rancho

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈar.kʰoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈar.kon]

名詞

archōn m (genitive archontis); third declension

1. archon

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

• Catalan: arcont
• French: archonte
• Italian: arconte
• Portuguese: arconte
• Romanian: arhonte
• Spanish: arconte

参照

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “archon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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 and Roman 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