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archi- or arch-

pref.

1. Chief; highest; most important: archiepiscopal.

2. Earlier; primitive: archenteron.

[French archi- and Italian arci-, both from Latin archi-, from Greek arkhi-, arkh-, from arkhein, to begin, rule.]

archi-

combining form

a variant of arch-

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