Other forms: archangels
An archangel is an angel of the highest rank. The archangel Michael, an archangel in the window.
Only two are named in the Bible itself, and the rest come from later tradition. The arch- at the front means chief, as in archbishop and architect.
1nounarchangelAn angel of the highest rank.
“The archangel in the east window was the only figure left intact.”
archangel is a being.
Greek archangelos is archi-, chief, plus angelos, a messenger.
Ancient Greek
ἀρχάγγελος
Latin
archangelus
Old French
archangele
Middle English
archangel
English, today
archangel
Built from
From Middle English archangel, from Old French archangele, from Latin archangelus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχάγγελος from Ancient Greek prefix ἀρχι- + ἄγγελος (“messenger”). by surface analysis, arch- + angel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA