ἄρχον (archon)

ἄρχον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀρχός, meaning “leader, ruler”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 25.43: Ναὶ γέρον Αὐγείην ἐθέλοιμί κεν ἀρχὸν Ἐπειῶν

Plutarch, Alexander 27.6: … ῦ φιλοσόφου διακούσας ἀποδέξασθαι μάλιστα τῶν λεχθέντων, ὅτι πάντες οἱ ἄνθρωποι βασιλεύονται ὑπὸ θεοῦ· τὸ γὰρ ἄρχον ἐν ἑκάστῳ καὶ κρατοῦν θεῖόν ἐστιν ἔτι δὲ μᾶλλον αὐτὸς περὶ τούτων φιλοσοφώτερον δοξάζειν καὶ λέγειν, ὡς πάντω …

Hippocrates, De fistulis 2: πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ὅταν τι τοιοῦτον αἴσθῃ φυόμενον φῦμα, τάμνειν ὡς τάχιστα ὠμὸν πρὶν ἢ διαπυῆσαι ἐς τὸν ἀρχόν.

All forms of ἀρχός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.