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Gender Masculine
Usage Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Scripts Ἀρχέλοχος(Ancient Greek)
Other Forms FormsArchelokhos, Arkhelochos, Arkhelokhos
Meaning & History
Either a variant of Archilochos or an independent name in its own right. If the latter is the case, then the first element of this name is different from that of the aforementioned name, but the second element is exactly the same: Greek λόχος (lochos) meaning "ambush". Here, the first element is in all likelihood the Greek noun ἀρχή (arche) meaning "beginning, origin, source", which you can also find in the modern English word archetype. As such, the meaning of this name is then basically "the original ambush", as in: the first ambush of its kind.