See also: Archive and archivé

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Etymology

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

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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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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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Etymology 1

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From archives.

Noun

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archive f (plural archives)

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

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archive

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

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Spanish

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archive

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