Noun: arx
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: Third
Genitive
| Singular | arcis |
| Plural | arcium |
Dative
| Singular | arcī |
| Plural | arcibus |
Accusative
| Singular | arcem |
| Plural | arcēs; arcīs |
Ablative
| Singular | arce |
| Plural | arcibus |
Sample Sentences
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... Trōiaque, nunc stārēs, Priamīque arx alta, manērēs. (... and Troy, you would now be standing, and Priam's mighty citadel still endure.) [Vergil, Aeneid, 2.56]
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venit in hoc illa fulmen ab arce caput. (It fell on this head [of mine], a thunderbolt from that height.
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(Jupiter (mythology) hurled thunderbolts from heaven, whereas the Emperor Augustus, living atop the Palatine Hill, had sentenced Ovid to exile.)) [8 CE – 12 CE, Ovidius, Tristia 1.72]
Nouns inflected like arx
quīncū̆nx,
alx,
arx,
fōx,
deū̆nx,
septū̆nx,
mendāx,
thraex,
falx,
merx,
calx,
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Italic *arks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érk-s, from the root *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard, hold, lock”). De Vaan suggests that the root noun may have been formed innovatively within Proto-Italic itself or perhaps at an even later date. Cognates include Latin arca (“chest, box”), arceō (“to defend”), arcānus (“hidden, secret”), arcera (“covered carriage for sick people”), Old Armenian արգել (argel, “obstacle”) and Ancient Greek ἀρκέω (arkéō, “to ward off, fend off”), Persian ارگ (arg, “citadel”) See: Latin Nouns '
arca'.
Translations