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Archon
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<p><i>Archon</i> is a Greek word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem αρχ-, meaning "to be first, to rule" (see also ἀρχή "beginning, origin"), derived from the same root as words such as <a href="/facts/Monarch/YNmBzgBl">monarch</a> and <a href="/facts/Hierarchy/mYJyqFrG">hierarchy</a>. </p>