Inflected Form guide

-archy

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

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Pronunciation

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suffix

Meaning 1

form of government or rule

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, morpheme

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Latin -archia, from Ancient Greek -αρχίᾱ (-arkhíā), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule, government”).

Across languages

Translations

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: -argie — form of government or rule
  • Albanian: -arki — form of government or rule
  • Armenian: -արխիա (-arxia) — form of government or rule
  • Asturian: -arquía — form of government or rule
  • Azerbaijani: -arxiya — form of government or rule
  • Basque: -arkia — form of government or rule
  • Belarusian: -а́рхія (-árxija) — form of government or rule
  • Bulgarian: -а́рхия (-árhija) — form of government or rule
  • Catalan: -arquia — form of government or rule
  • Corsican: -archia — form of government or rule
  • Czech: -archie — form of government or rule
  • Danish: -arki — form of government or rule
  • Dutch: -archie — form of government or rule
  • Esperanto: -arkio — form of government or rule
  • Esperanto: -arĥio — form of government or rule
  • Estonian: -arhia — form of government or rule
  • Finnish: -arkia — form of government or rule
  • French: -archie — form of government or rule
  • Friulian: -archie — form of government or rule
  • Galician: -arquía — form of government or rule
  • Georgian: -არქია (-arkia) — form of government or rule
  • German: -archie — form of government or rule
  • Greek: -αρχία (-archía) — form of government or rule
  • Ancient Greek: -αρχία (-arkhía) — form of government or rule
  • Hebrew: ־ארכיה (árkhiya) — form of government or rule
  • Hungarian: -archia — form of government or rule
  • Ido: -arkio — form of government or rule
  • Indonesian: -arki — form of government or rule
  • Interlingua: -archia — form of government or rule
  • Irish: -arcacht — form of government or rule
  • Italian: -archia — form of government or rule
  • Kazakh: -архия (-arxiä) — form of government or rule
  • Khmer: -ធិបតេយ្យ (thɨpteeyyɔɔ) — form of government or rule
  • Northern Kurdish: -arşî — form of government or rule
  • Kyrgyz: -архия (-arhiya) — form of government or rule
  • Lao: -ທິປະໄຕ (thi pa tai) — form of government or rule
  • Latin: -archia — form of government or rule
  • Latvian: -arhija — form of government or rule
  • Lithuanian: -arhija — form of government or rule
  • Macedonian: -архија (-arhija) — form of government or rule
  • Maltese: -arkija — form of government or rule
  • Marathi: -शाही (-śāhī) — form of government or rule
  • Norwegian Bokmål: -arki — form of government or rule
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: -arki — form of government or rule
  • Occitan: -arquia — form of government or rule
  • Polish: -archia — form of government or rule
  • Portuguese: -arquia — form of government or rule
  • Romanian: -arhie — form of government or rule
  • Romanian: -архие (-arhie) — form of government or rule
  • Russian: -а́рхия (-árxija) — form of government or rule
  • Serbo-Croatian: -архија — form of government or rule
  • Serbo-Croatian: -arhija — form of government or rule
  • Sicilian: -archìa — form of government or rule
  • Slovak: -archia — form of government or rule
  • Slovene: -arhija — form of government or rule
  • Spanish: -arquía — form of government or rule
  • Swedish: -arki — form of government or rule
  • Tagalog: -arkiya — form of government or rule
  • Tajik: -архия (-arxiya) — form of government or rule
  • Thai: -ธิปไตย — form of government or rule
  • Turkish: -arşi — form of government or rule
  • Turkmen: -arhiýa — form of government or rule
  • Ukrainian: -а́рхія (-árxija) — form of government or rule
  • Uzbek: -arxiya — form of government or rule
  • Yiddish: ־אַרכיע (-arkhye) — form of government or rule