archive

See also: Archive and archivé

English

Etymology

Ca. 1600, from French archive(s), from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, town hall).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːkaɪv/
  • (file)
  • (General American) enPR: är'kīv', IPA(key): /ˈɑɹkaɪv/
  • (file)
  • 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).
    His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
  3. (ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
    soil archive    peat archive

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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
    I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʁ.ʃiv/
  • (file)

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

Verb

archive

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

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Spanish

Verb

archive

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