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English
Etymology
From Latin repositōrium.
Pronunciation
Noun
repository (plural repositories)
- A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
- (computing) a storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.
- A burial vault.
- (figurative) A person to whom a secret is entrusted.
- (dated) A place where things are kept for sale; a shop.
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a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- Arabic: مَخْزَن m (maḵzan)
- Moroccan Arabic: خزنة (ḵazna)
- Armenian: պահեստ (hy) (pahest), շտեմարան (hy) (štemaran)
- Bulgarian: склад (bg) m (sklad), хранилище (bg) n (hranilište)
- Catalan: dipòsit (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 倉庫/仓库 (zh) (cāngkù)
- Czech: úložiště n
- Dutch: opslagplaats (nl) c, depot (nl) n, opslagruimte (nl) c
- Esperanto: deponejo
- Finnish: säilytyspaikka (fi), säilö (fi)
- French: chambre-forte f, coffre-fort (fr) m, repositoire (fr) m
- Georgian: საცავი (sacavi)
- German: Ablage (de) f, Depot (de) n, Archiv (de) n
- Greek: αποθήκη (el) f (apothíki), (software source) αποθετήριο (el) n (apothetírio)
- Ancient: ἀποθήκη f (apothḗkē)
- Hungarian: tár (hu), adattár (hu), gyűjtemény (hu), archívum (hu), lerakat (hu), raktár (hu), tárház (hu), tároló (hu), megőrző (hu)
- Italian: ripostiglio (it), ricettacolo (it)
- Japanese: 倉庫 (ja) (そうこ, sōko)
- Latin: receptāculum n, apothēca f
- Macedonian: склад m (sklad), скла́диште n (skládište), храни́лиште n (hranílište) (archaic), стова́риште n (stovárište)
- Ottoman Turkish: انبار (anbar), مخزن (mahzen)
- Persian: مخزن (fa) (maxzan)
- Polish: składnica (pl) f, magazyn (pl) m, skład (pl) m, przechowalnia (pl) f, repozytorium (pl) n
- Portuguese: repositório (pt) m
- Russian: храни́лище (ru) n (xranílišče), склад (ru) m (sklad), вмести́лище (ru) n (vmestílišče)
- Spanish: repositorio (es) m
- Swedish: lager (sv)
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storage location for computer files
a person to whom a secret is entrusted
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