English Language & Usage Asked on February 28, 2021
From Wikipedia:
The term archmage is used in fantasy works as a title for a powerful magician or a leader of magicians.
Should it be pronounced arch, ark, or some other way?
Where arch- is a prefix indicating the top of a hierarchy, it's pronounced /-tʃ/ rather than /-k/. Cf archbishop, archdeacon and arch-criminal.
Where the Greek archi- prefix is retained in English, it has the k sound: architect, archiepiscopal, archidiaconal.
See Lexico:
arch-
Chief; principal.
Pronunciation /ɑːtʃ/
(In passing, archmage is a curious mixture of Greek archi- and Latin magus. Not a good thing.)
Answered by Andrew Leach on February 28, 2021
I checked a few online dictionaries like Wikitionary, YourDictionary, Wordnik, but none of them gives its pronunciation. I didn't find 'archmage' in other online dictionaries.
There are some guidelines for how to pronounce arch-:
I believe archmage belongs to the second category and is pronounced with /t͡ʃ/.
Answered by Decapitated Soul on February 28, 2021
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