"architectonic" meaning in English

See architectonic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɑɹ.kə.tɛkˈtɑ.nɪk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-architectonic.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more architectonic [comparative], most architectonic [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin architectonicus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτεκτονικός (arkhitektonikós), from ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|architectonicus}} Latin architectonicus, {{der|en|grc|ἀρχιτεκτονικός}} Ancient Greek ἀρχιτεκτονικός (arkhitektonikós) Head templates: {{en-adj}} architectonic (comparative more architectonic, superlative most architectonic)
  1. Relating to or characteristic of architecture, design and construction.
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  2. (figurative) Foundational, fundamental; supporting the structure of a morality, society, or culture. Tags: figuratively Translations (foundational, fundamental): perustava (Finnish), perustavanlaatuinen (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-architectonic-en-adj-ltDV9Y05 Disambiguation of 'foundational, fundamental': 1 99 1
  3. Relating to the scientific systematization of the totality of knowledge.
    Sense id: en-architectonic-en-adj-yrBllmir
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: angioarchitectonic, architectonically, chemoarchitectonic, cytoarchitectonic, myeloarchitectonic

Noun

IPA: /ɑɹ.kə.tɛkˈtɑ.nɪk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-architectonic.wav [Southern-England] Forms: architectonics [plural]
Etymology: From Latin architectonicus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτεκτονικός (arkhitektonikós), from ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|architectonicus}} Latin architectonicus, {{der|en|grc|ἀρχιτεκτονικός}} Ancient Greek ἀρχιτεκτονικός (arkhitektonikós) Head templates: {{en-noun}} architectonic (plural architectonics)
  1. The design, structure, or architecture of something. Related terms: architectonics, receptorarchitectonic
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}

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  "path": [
    "architectonic"
  ],
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  "title": "architectonic",
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}

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  "msg": "form='architectonic' has many different link candidates `['w:architectonic', 'architectonic', 'architectonic']`, which can't be disambiguated.",
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.