Originally posted by punknaynowned
hahahhahahaa!!!
arkay (phoenetic sounding of the term because I can't find the font here for real greek)
shown in greek letters is 4 characters as a 1st person singular, nominative noun that looks like this:
apXn
but isn't quite. No worries though as the word itself is ancient greek (found in Homer) as origin or first cause, a beginning.
But it gained a meaning through greek of being a head, or top, 'chief', in sense.
The Romans took this, and of course, couldn't quite copy the greek language as the greek's taught them, changed it a bit to mean a citadel, a
stronghold, fortress. But in its strictest sense meant THE ARX, on the Capitoline hill in Rome, the holiest of holy temples to Zeus; so it became
understood as the chief stronghold in any city. Much later still, it became recognised that these biggest remaining monuments, basilicas oftentimes
had soaring huge arches, massive curves that stretched as high as seemed possible, of marble and stone. The latin arcus as used by Vergil and Ovid
meant just such curves, like a rainbow's, or the paralell zones round the earth
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