Skip to content
Σ
ReadSuda
Browse
Topics
Random
About
Aa
Settings
Searching…
⌕
Search
Α
Letters
⤨
Random
Aa
Settings
Keyboard shortcuts
j
Next entry
k
Previous entry
g
Toggle Greek
/
Search
?
Show shortcuts
Close
Search
Search the Suda
⌕
Search
All
Headwords
Translation
Greek
Notes
Filters
Keyword
definition
6
comedy
4
ethics
4
biography
3
dialects, grammar, and etymology
3
daily life
2
meter and music
2
rhetoric
2
art history
1
chronology
1
economics
1
geography
1
6 more
law
1
mythology
1
philosophy
1
proverbs
1
tragedy
1
zoology
1
Letter
Α
alpha
8
Vetting status
high
8
Length
Short
7
Medium
1
Translator
Jennifer Benedict
7
David Whitehead
1
8 entries for
Arcaeus, Arkaios
Relevance
Adler order
Longest first
α
3949
Ἀρκαῖος
Arcaeus, Arkaios
A proper name.
Matched in headword
high
short
α
4071
Ἀρχαιόγονος Ἀρχέγονος
primeval, primal
[a)rxaio/gonos], but [sc. also attested is] a)rxe/gonos.
Matched in headword
high
short
α
4072
Ἀρχαῖον
principal, ancient
The orators used [the word] "principal" of borrowed money, the money which some call "capital", kephalaion, according to a certain custom of usage. Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Nikostratos [writes]: "he lent money to …
Matched in headword
high
medium
α
4073
Ἀρχαῖον τὸ κιθαρίζειν
kithara-playing [is] old-fashioned
That is, worthy of no account, silly, senseless.
Matched in headword
high
short
α
4074
Ἀρχαῖος
old-fashioned
[Meaning] someone/something ancient. Isocrates in the Panegyricus [says] "speaking old-fashionedly", that is, using rather archaic words. But Demosthenes in [the] Philippics [sc. is found] saying "they behaved so old-fashionedly, or rather, like good citizens"; …
Matched in headword
high
short
α
4075
Ἀρχαῖος
simple
Meaning naive. Plato [sc. uses the word in this sense]. Or [talking?] nonsense. But [the related adverb] a)rxai/ws [means] carelessly, unobservantly; or even foolishly, naively. "[They] humming tunes simple-honeyed-Sidon-Phrynichus-lovely."
Matched in headword
high
short
α
4076
Ἀρχαιότερα τῆς διφθέρας λέγεις
you talk more old-fashioned than the hide
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those saying unsound and outdated things. For the hide is very old, [the one] on which Zeus supposedly wrote what things came into being.
Matched in headword
high
short
α
4077
Ἀρχαιότυπος
archaiotype, archetype
[Meaning] the ancient convention.
Matched in headword
high
short