archive

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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).
3. Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.

Verb

To place (something) into an archive.

Concepts

archives

archiver

archive

cartulaire

Synonymes

file

archives

chancery

file away

repository

records

files

archive file

archival memory

back up

bulk memory

bury

chronicle

log

record room

Traductions

Archiv

archivo

archief

archivio

archivieren

αρχείο

arquivo

archium

archivar

arşiv

أرشيف

arquivar

arxiu

αρχειοθετώ

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɑːkaɪv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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

Phrases

His archive is to be donated to the National Media Museum in Bradford , England .