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English
Etymology
Ca. 1600, from French archive(s), from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “town hall”).
Pronunciation
Noun
archive (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
Translations
place
- Albanian: arkiv (sq) m
- Arabic: أَرْشِيف m (ʔaršīf)
- Armenian: արխիվ (hy) (arxiv)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܟܵܐ m (arkā)
- Azerbaijani:
- Abjad: كوتوك (kötük)
- Roman: arxiv (az)
- Belarusian: архі́ў (be) m (arxíŭ)
- Bulgarian: архи́в m (arhív)
- Catalan: arxiu (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 檔案／档案 (zh) (dàng'àn), 檔案館／档案馆 (zh) (dàng'ànguǎn), 存檔／存档 (zh) (cúndàng), 卷宗 (zh) (juànzōng), (computer) 歸檔／归档 (zh) (guīdàng)
- Crimean Tatar: kütük
- Czech: archiv (cs) m
- Danish: arkiv (da) n
- Dutch: archief (nl) n
- Esperanto: arkivo, arĥivo, arkivejo (eo), arĥivejo
- Estonian: arhiiv
- Finnish: arkisto (fi)
- French: archives (fr) f pl
- Gagauz: arhiv
- Galician: arquivo m
- Gallurese: alciu ?
- Georgian: არქივი (arkivi)
- German: Archiv (de) n
- Greek: αρχείο (el) n (archeío)
- Hausa: rumbun
- Hebrew: אַרְכִיּוֹן (he) m (arkhión)
- Hindi: पुरालेख m (purālekh)
- Hungarian: levéltár (hu), irattár (hu), okmánytár (hu), archívum (hu)
- Indonesian: arsip (id)
- Interlingua: archivo
- Irish: cartlann f, aircív f
- Italian: archivio (it) m, banca dati (it) f
- Japanese: 書庫 (ja) (しょこ, shoko), 文書の保管所 (ぶんしょのほかんしょ, bunsho no hokansho), アーカイブ (ja) (ākaibu) (computer)
- Kazakh: мұрағат (kk) (mūrağat), архив (arxiv)
- Khmer: ប័ណ្ណសារ (bannaʼsaa)
- Korean: 보관소(保管所) (ko) (bogwanso), 공문서(公文書) (gongmunseo), 아카이브 (ko) (akaibeu)
- Kyrgyz: архив (ky) (arhiv)
- Latin: tabulārium n, archīvum (la) n, archium n
- Latvian: arhīvs m
- Lithuanian: archyvas m
- Macedonian: архив m (arhiv)
- Malay: arkib (ms)
- Manchu: ᡩᠠᠩᠰᡝ
ᠪᠣᠣ (dangse boo)
- Maori: pūranga, whare pūranga (a building)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: архив (mn) (arxiv)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: arkiv (no) n
- Ottoman Turkish: كوتوك (kütük)
- Pashto: خونديځ (ps)
- Persian: بایگانی (fa) (bâyegâni), آرشیو (fa) (âršiv)
- Polish: archiwum (pl) n
- Portuguese: arquivo (pt) m
- Romagnol: archìvi m
- Romanian: arhivă (ro) f
- Russian: архи́в (ru) m (arxív)
- Sassarese: archíbiu ?
- Scottish Gaelic: tasg-lann f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: а̀рхӣв m, пи̏смохрана f
- Roman: àrhīv (sh) m, pȉsmohrana (sh) f
- Slovak: archív m
- Slovene: arhiv (sl) m
- Spanish: archivo (es) m
- Swedish: arkiv (sv) n
- Tagalog: sinupan
- Tajik: бойгонӣ (boygonī), архив (arxiv)
- Tatar: архив (arxiw)
- Thai: จดหมายเหตุ (jòt-mǎai-hèet), หน่วยเก็บถาวร (nùai-gèp-tǎa-wɔɔn) (computer)
- Turkish: arşiv (tr),
- Turkmen: arhiw (tk)
- Ukrainian: архі́в (uk) m (arxív)
- Uzbek: arxiv (uz), hujjatxona
- Vietnamese: tài liệu lưu trữ
- Volapük: ragiv (vo)
- Yiddish: אַרכיוו m (arkhiv)
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Verb
archive (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.
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From archives.
Noun
archive f (plural archives)
- (rare) an item in an archive, a document kept for historical interest
- (rare) singular of archives
Etymology 2
Verb
archive
- inflection of archiver:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
Anagrams
Spanish
Verb
archive
- inflection of archivar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative