different between archival vs archives

English

Etymology

From archive +? -al

Noun

archival (countable and uncountable, plural archivals)

1. The act of archiving something.

   Our nightly backups include the archival of old e-mail messages.

Synonyms

• archivation, archivization (rare)

Adjective

archival (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.

Translations

References

• “archival”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Noun

archives

1. plural of archive

Verb

archives

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of archive

   The library archives some of its older books.

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin arch?vum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (arkheîon).

Noun

archives f pl (plural only)

1. archive, the historical material (usually documents) considered as a whole
2. place for storing archives
3. plural of archive

Derived terms

• archiver

Etymology 2

Verb

archives

1. second-person singular present indicative of archiver
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of archiver

Anagrams

• chavires, chavirés

Further reading

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

Spanish

Verb

archives

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of archivar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of archivar.