| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ar·chi·pel·a·go |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  är k -p l -g |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. ar·chi·pel·a·goes or ar·chi·pel·a·gos
1. A large group of islands: the Philippine archipelago. 2. A sea, such as the Aegean, containing a large number of scattered islands. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Italian Arcipelago, the Aegean Sea, alteration (influenced by arci-, chief, archi-) of Medieval Latin  g opelagus : Latin Aegaeus, gus, Aegean (from Greek Aigaios) + Latin pelagus, sea (from Greek pelagos; see pl k-1 in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | archi·pe·lagic (-p-l j k) —ADJECTIVE
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