archive

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːkaɪv/

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• (General American) enPR: är'kīv', IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹkaɪv/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.kɑɪv/
• Hyphenation: ar‧chive

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.
   • 2017 September 20, James Somers, quoting Thomas Lannon, “Keepers of the Secrets”, in The Village Voice‎^[1]:

     “I don’t know how one could be interested in libraries and not archives,” Lannon told me. They tell you “the stories behind things,” he said, “the unpublished, the hard to find, the true story.

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

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.

• Varchie

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʃiv/

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From archives.

archive f (plural archives)

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

archive

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

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

• chavire, chaviré

archive

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