"arx" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: /arks/ [Classical], [ärks̠] [Classical], /arks/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ärks] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard, hold, lock”). Cognates include Latin arca (“chest, box”), arceō (“I defend”), arcānus (“hidden, secret”), arcera (“covered carriage for sick people”), Old Armenian արգել (argel, “obstacle”) and Ancient Greek ἀρκέω (arkéō). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*h₂erk-}}, {{der|la|ine-pro|*h₂erk-||to protect, guard, hold, lock}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard, hold, lock”), {{cog|la|arca||chest, box}} Latin arca (“chest, box”), {{m|la|arceō||I defend}} arceō (“I defend”), {{m|la|arcānus||hidden, secret}} arcānus (“hidden, secret”), {{m|la|arcera||covered carriage for sick people}} arcera (“covered carriage for sick people”), {{cog|xcl|արգել||obstacle}} Old Armenian արգել (argel, “obstacle”), {{cog|grc|ἀρκέω}} Ancient Greek ἀρκέω (arkéō) Head templates: {{la-noun|arx<3.I>|g=f}} arx f (genitive arcis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|arx<3.I>}} Forms: arcis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], arx [nominative, singular], arcēs [nominative, plural], arcis [genitive, singular], arcium [genitive, plural], arcī [dative, singular], arcibus [dative, plural], arcem [accusative, singular], arcēs [accusative, plural], arcīs [accusative, plural], arce [ablative, singular], arcibus [ablative, plural], arx [singular, vocative], arcēs [plural, vocative]
  1. stronghold, castle, citadel, fortress, acropolis
    (figuratively) defence, protection, refuge, bulwark     Tags: declension-3, feminine, figuratively Categories (topical): Buildings and structures
    Sense id: en-arx-la-noun-O4cn6gpW Disambiguation of Buildings and structures: 28 28 28 16 Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 24 23 23 29
  2. stronghold, castle, citadel, fortress, acropolis
    tyranny (with arx as the abode of tyrants)     Tags: declension-3, feminine Categories (topical): Buildings and structures
    Sense id: en-arx-la-noun-hoiVqr3M Disambiguation of Buildings and structures: 28 28 28 16 Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 24 23 23 29
  3. stronghold, castle, citadel, fortress, acropolis Tags: declension-3, feminine Categories (topical): Buildings and structures
    Sense id: en-arx-la-noun-sjSNwQC- Disambiguation of Buildings and structures: 28 28 28 16 Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 24 23 23 29
  4. (metonymically) height, summit, pinnacle, top, peak (since castles were often built on heights) Tags: declension-3, feminine, metonymically Categories (topical): Buildings and structures
    Sense id: en-arx-la-noun-rqw6HDvl Disambiguation of Buildings and structures: 28 28 28 16 Categories (other): Latin metonyms, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin entries with topic categories using raw markup, Latin feminine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 21 21 21 37 Disambiguation of Latin entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 19 19 44 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 24 23 23 29

Inflected forms

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          "english": "... and Troy, you would now be standing, and Priam's mighty citadel still endure.",
          "ref": "Vergil, Aeneid, 2.56",
          "text": "... Trōiaque, nunc stārēs, Priamīque arx alta, manērēs."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "stronghold, castle, citadel, fortress, acropolis"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stronghold",
          "stronghold"
        ],
        [
          "castle",
          "castle"
        ],
        [
          "citadel",
          "citadel"
        ],
        [
          "fortress",
          "fortress"
        ],
        [
          "acropolis",
          "acropolis"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin metonyms",
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It fell on this head [of mine], a thunderbolt from that height.\n(Jupiter (mythology) hurled thunderbolts from heaven, whereas the Emperor Augustus, living atop the Palatine Hill, had sentenced Ovid to exile.)",
          "ref": "8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.72",
          "text": "venit in hōc illa fulmen ab arce caput."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "height, summit, pinnacle, top, peak (since castles were often built on heights)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "height",
          "height"
        ],
        [
          "summit",
          "summit"
        ],
        [
          "pinnacle",
          "pinnacle"
        ],
        [
          "top",
          "top"
        ],
        [
          "peak",
          "peak"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(metonymically) height, summit, pinnacle, top, peak (since castles were often built on heights)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine",
        "metonymically"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/arks/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ärks̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/arks/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ärks]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "arx"
}

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  "called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
  "msg": "''stronghold, castle, citadel, f'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
  "path": [
    "arx"
  ],
  "section": "Latin",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "arx",
  "trace": ""
}

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