archive

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English

Etymology

First appears c. 1603 in a translation by Philemon Holland. From French archive(s), from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “town hall”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːkaɪv/
• (General American) enPR: är'kīv', IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹkaɪv/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.kɑɪv/
• Hyphenation: ar‧chive

Noun

archive (plural archives)

1. 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.
2. The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).

3. (ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.

   soil archive

   peat archive

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

archive (third-person singular simple present archives, present participle archiving, simple past and past participle archived)

1. (transitive) To place (something) into an archive.

   Synonym: archivize

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Varchie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʃiv/

Etymology 1

From archives.

Noun

archive f (plural archives)

1. (rare) an item in an archive, a document kept for historical interest
2. (rare) singular of archives

Etymology 2

Verb

archive

1. inflection of archiver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “archive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• chavire, chaviré

Spanish

Verb

archive

1. inflection of archivar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative