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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Archi- \Ar"chi-\ [L., archi-, Gr 'archi-, a prefix which is from the same root as 'a`rchein to be first to begin; 'archh the first place beginning; 'archo`s chief. Cf AS arce-, erce-, OHG. erzi-, G. erz-.] A prefix signifying chief, arch; as architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing. From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Archi a city on the boundary of Ephraim and Benjamin (Josh. 16:2), between Bethel and Beth-horon the nether.
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