archive

See also: Archive and archivé

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (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

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

     “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 They tell you “the stories behind things,” he said, “the unpublished, the hard to find, the true story.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

Derived terms

• archival (adjective)
• archivation
• archive box
• archiving
• archivism
• archivist
• archivization
• bioarchive
• cryoarchive
• de-archive
• e-archive
• national archive
• subarchive
• unarchive

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 (boygoni), архив (arxiv) Tatar: архив (arxiw) Thai: จดหมายเหตุ (jòt-mǎai-hèet), หน่วยเก็บถาวร (nùai-gèp-tǎa-wɔɔn) (computer) Tibetan: ཡིག་མཛོད (yig mdzod, literally “document treasury”), ཡིག་ཚང (yig tshang, literally “document nest”) Turkish: arşiv (tr), Turkmen: arhiw (tk) Ukrainian: архі́в (uk) m (arxív) Uzbek: arxiv (uz), hujjatxona Vietnamese: trung tâm lưu trữ (中心留貯) Volapük: ragiv (vo) Yiddish: אַרכיוו m (arkhiv)

material

Finnish: arkisto (fi) Indonesian: pertinggal (id) Tibetan: ཡིག་རྙིང་ཕྱོགས་བསྡུས (yig rnying phyogs bsdus, literally “old document collection”)

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.

Derived terms

• archivability
• archivable
• archival (noun)
• rearchive
• self-archive
• self-archiving
• unarchive

Translations

to archive

Armenian: արխիվացնել (arxivacʻnel) Bulgarian: архивирам (bg) (arhiviram) Chinese: Mandarin: 檔案 / 档案 (zh) (dàng'àn), 歸檔 / 归档 (zh) (guīdàng) Czech: archivovat (cs) Danish: arkivere (da) Dutch: archiveren (nl) Esperanto: arĥivi, arkivi Finnish: arkistoida (fi) French: archiver (fr) Galician: arquivar German: archivieren (de) Greek: αρχειοθετώ (el) (archeiothetó) Hungarian: archivál (hu) Indonesian: mengarsipkan (id), mempertinggal Interlingua: archivar Italian: archiviare (it) Japanese: アーカイブに格納する (ākaibu-ni kakunō-suru) Korean: 보존하다 (ko) (bojonhada), 보관하다 (ko) (bogwanhada) Lithuanian: archyvuoti Maori: whakaputu, pūranga, whakapūkete Norman: archiver Norwegian: Bokmål: arkivere (no) Nynorsk: arkivere, arkivera Polish: archiwizować (pl) impf, zarchiwizować pf Portuguese: arquivar (pt) Romanian: arhiva Russian: архиви́ровать (ru) (arxivírovatʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: архиви́рати impf or pf Roman: arhivírati (sh) Slovak: archivovať Slovene: arhivirati Spanish: archivar (es) Swedish: arkivera (sv) Turkish: arşivlemek (tr), belgeliklemek Vietnamese: lưu trữ thông tin (留貯通信)

Anagrams

• Varchie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʃiv/

• Audio:

  (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

Etymology 2

Verb

archive

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• chavire, chaviré

Spanish

Verb

archive

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