arx
Azerbaijani
editEtymology
editFrom Common Turkic *ārïk (“aryk, ditch; river, creek, brook”), from Proto-Turkic *ār-~*ar-~*ïr- (“to flow”), whence also Azerbaijani irmaq (“river”).[1]
Cognates
Noun
editarx (definite accusative arxı, plural arxlar)
- irrigation ditch
- gutter
- Synonym: qanov
Declension
editDeclension of arx | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | arx |
arxlar | ||||||
definite accusative | arxı |
arxları | ||||||
dative | arxa |
arxlara | ||||||
locative | arxda |
arxlarda | ||||||
ablative | arxdan |
arxlardan | ||||||
definite genitive | arxın |
arxların |
Descendants
edit- → Armenian: արխ (arx)
References
edit- ^ Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, pages 187-189
Further reading
edit- “arx” in Obastan.com.
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard, hold, lock”). Cognates include Latin arca (“chest, box”), arceō (“I defend”), arcānus (“hidden, secret”), arcera (“covered carriage for sick people”), Old Armenian արգել (argel, “obstacle”) and Ancient Greek ἀρκέω (arkéō).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /arks/, [ärks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /arks/, [ärks]
Noun
editarx f (genitive arcis); third declension
- stronghold, castle, citadel, fortress, acropolis
- Vergil, Aeneid, 2.56:
- ... Trōiaque, nunc stārēs, Priamīque arx alta, manērēs.
- ... and Troy, you would now be standing, and Priam's mighty citadel still endure.
- ... Trōiaque, nunc stārēs, Priamīque arx alta, manērēs.
- (figuratively) defence, protection, refuge, bulwark
- tyranny (with arx as the abode of tyrants)
- Vergil, Aeneid, 2.56:
- (metonymically) height, summit, pinnacle, top, peak (since castles were often built on heights)
- 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.72:
- venit in hōc illa fulmen ab arce caput.
- It fell on this head [of mine], a thunderbolt from that height.
(Jupiter (mythology) hurled thunderbolts from heaven, whereas the Emperor Augustus, living atop the Palatine Hill, had sentenced Ovid to exile.)
- It fell on this head [of mine], a thunderbolt from that height.
- venit in hōc illa fulmen ab arce caput.
Declension
editThird-declension noun (i-stem).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | arx | arcēs |
genitive | arcis | arcium |
dative | arcī | arcibus |
accusative | arcem | arcēs arcīs |
ablative | arce | arcibus |
vocative | arx | arcēs |
References
edit- “arx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arx in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- arx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “arx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “arx”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- “arx”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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