Standard Lemma guide

-arch

suffix · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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1

suffix

Meaning 1

leading, leader

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Late Latin -archa, from Latin -archēs, from Ancient Greek -άρχης (-árkhēs), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule, government”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h2ergh- (“to begin, rule, command”).

Across languages

Translations

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: -arg — leading, leader
  • Albanian: -ark — leading, leader
  • Armenian: -արխ (-arx) — leading, leader
  • Asturian: -arca — leading, leader
  • Azerbaijani: -arx — leading, leader
  • Basque: -arka — leading, leader
  • Belarusian: -а́рх (-árx) — leading, leader
  • Bulgarian: -а́рх (-árh) — leading, leader
  • Catalan: -arca — leading, leader
  • Corsican: -arca — leading, leader
  • Czech: -archa — leading, leader
  • Danish: -ark — leading, leader
  • Dutch: -arch — leading, leader
  • Esperanto: -arĥo — leading, leader
  • Esperanto: -arko — leading, leader
  • Estonian: -arh — leading, leader
  • Finnish: -arkka — leading, leader
  • Finnish: -arkki — leading, leader
  • French: -arque — leading, leader
  • Friulian: -arcje — leading, leader
  • Galician: -arca — leading, leader
  • Georgian: -არქი (-arki) — leading, leader
  • German: -arch — leading, leader
  • German: -archin — leading, leader
  • Greek: -άρχης (-árchis) — leading, leader
  • Ancient Greek: -άρχης (-árkhēs) — leading, leader
  • Hebrew: ־רְךְ (-árkh) — leading, leader
  • Hungarian: -árka — leading, leader
  • Hungarian: -archa — leading, leader
  • Ido: -arko — leading, leader
  • Indonesian: -ark — leading, leader
  • Interlingua: -archa — leading, leader
  • Italian: -arca — leading, leader
  • Kazakh: -арх (-arx) — leading, leader
  • Kyrgyz: -арх (-arh) — leading, leader
  • Latin: -archēs — leading, leader
  • Latin: -archa — leading, leader
  • Latvian: -arhs — leading, leader
  • Ligurian: -àrca — leading, leader
  • Lithuanian: -archas — leading, leader
  • Lombard: -arca — leading, leader
  • Macedonian: -арх (-arh) — leading, leader
  • Maltese: -arka — leading, leader
  • Norwegian Bokmål: -ark — leading, leader
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: -ark — leading, leader
  • Occitan: -arca — leading, leader
  • Piedmontese: -arca — leading, leader
  • Polish: -archa — leading, leader
  • Polish: -archini — leading, leader
  • Portuguese: -arca — leading, leader
  • Romanian: -arh — leading, leader
  • Romanian: -арх (-arh) — leading, leader
  • Russian: -а́рх (-árx) — leading, leader
  • Serbo-Croatian: -арх — leading, leader
  • Serbo-Croatian: -arh — leading, leader
  • Slovak: -archa — leading, leader
  • Slovene: -arh — leading, leader
  • Spanish: -arca — leading, leader
  • Swedish: -ark — leading, leader
  • Tagalog: -arka — leading, leader
  • Tajik: -арх (-arx) — leading, leader
  • Tatar: -арх (-arx) — leading, leader
  • Turkish: -ark — leading, leader
  • Turkmen: -arh — leading, leader
  • Ukrainian: -а́рх (-árx) — leading, leader
  • Ukrainian: -архи́ня (-arxýnja) — leading, leader
  • Uzbek: -arx — leading, leader
  • Yiddish: ־אַרך (-arkh) — leading, leader