arch-
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
arch-/ɑːtʃ/
▶combining form chief; principal: archbishop.
■ pre-eminent of its kind: arch-enemy.
– origin via L. from Gk arkhi-, from arkhos ‘chief’.
'arch-' also found in these Oxford entries:
abutment
- almucantar
- apsis
- arch
- arch
- -arch
- arch-enemy
- architrave
- archivolt
- arch-rival
- -archy
- bearing rein
- bow
- buttress
- centring
- column
- cove
- extrados
- flat foot
- flying buttress
- foil
- fornicate
- front
- gateway
- hammer beam
- haunch
- hoop
- impost
- innominate artery
- intrados
- invert
- keystone
- lacing course
- lancet arch
- manteltree
- ogee arch
- ogive
- overarch
- overthrow
- pier
- proscenium
- rainbow
- respond
- rise
- segmental
- skew arch
- skewback
- soffit
- spandrel
