Noun: arch
| Singular | arch |
| Plural | arches |
Sample Sentences
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to pass into the arch of a bridge
Nouns inflected like arch
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos
4. Proto-Italic *arkuos
5. Latin arcus
6. Old French arc
7. Old French archebor.
8. Middle English arch
9. English arch
10. From Middle English arch, arche, from Old French arche (“an arch”), a feminine form of arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arc and arco. Displaced native Old English bīeġels and Old English hwealf. See: Middle English Nouns '
arch', Latin Nouns '
arcus'.