arche

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈɑː(ɹ)ki/

Definition of arche

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The first principle of existing things in pre-Socratic philosophy, initially assumed to be of water.
    “In more modern times both the moving and the matter moved appear more complex and malleable, and less drawn from the realm of everyday experience. The substance may be dark matter and quarks rather than water or air, and the arche may be gravity or string harmonics.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The first principle of existing things in pre-Socratic philosophy, initially assumed to be of water.
    “In more modern times both the moving and the matter moved appear more complex and malleable, and less drawn from the realm of everyday experience. The substance may be dark matter and quarks rather than water or air, and the arche may be gravity or string harmonics.”

name

  1. One of the moons of Jupiter.

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ, literally “beginning, origin”).

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