archive
English
editEtymology
editFirst appears c. 1603 in a translation by Philemon Holland. From French archive(s), from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖ
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːkaɪv/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file)
- (General American) enPR: är'kīv', IPA(key): /ˈɑɹkaɪv/
Audio (General American): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈaː.kɑɪv/
- Hyphenation: ar‧chive
Noun
editarchive (plural archives)
- A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
- The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
- His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
- (ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
- soil archive peat archive
Derived terms
editTranslations
editplace
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Verb
editarchive (third-person singular simple present archives, present participle archiving, simple past and past participle archived)
- (transitive) To place (something) into an archive.
- Synonym: archivize
- I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editto archive
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Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom archives.
Noun
editarchive f (plural archives)
Etymology 2
editVerb
editarchive
- inflection of archiver:
Further reading
edit- “archive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editSpanish
editVerb
editarchive
- inflection of archivar:
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