Definitions

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  • A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).

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  • suffix leading, leader

Etymologies

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From Latin -archa, -arches, from Ancient Greek -άρχης (-archēs), from ἀρχός (archos, "chief").

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