archive

From French archives, from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “town hall”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːkaɪv/; (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹkaɪv/
• enPR: är'kīv'

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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.

archive (third-person singular simple present archives, present participle archiving, simple past and past participle archived)

1. To put into an archive.

   I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʃiv/

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archive f (plural archives)

1. an item in an archive, a document kept for historical interest
2. (in the plural) archive, archives

archive

1. first-person singular present indicative of archiver
2. third-person singular present indicative of archiver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of archiver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of archiver
5. second-person singular imperative of archiver

• “archive” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• chavire, chaviré

archive

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of archivar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of archivar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of archivar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of archivar.