different between archive vs ambry

English

Etymology

From French archive, from Latin arch?vum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (arkheîon, “town hall”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ka?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???ka?v/, enPR: är'k?v'
• 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.
2. The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).

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

   soil archive; peat archive

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

1. To put into an archive.

Synonyms

• archivize

Translations

Anagrams

• Varchie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.?iv/

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. 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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• chavire, chaviré

Spanish

Verb

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.

English

Alternative forms

• almery, aumbrie, aumbry, ambery

Etymology

From Middle English almerie, from Anglo-Norman almarie, aumer, etc., from Old French almarie, from Latin arm?rium. Doublet of armarium and armoire.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???m.b?i/

Noun

ambry (plural ambries)

1. (now historical, rare) A bookcase; a library or archive. [from 13^thc.]
2. (obsolete) A storehouse, especially a niche or recess in a wall used for storage.
3. (now rare) A pantry, or place to store food. [from 14^thc.]
4. (architecture) A cupboard or storage area in a church to hold books, communion vessels, vestments, etc.; an armarium. [from 16^thc.]
   • 1983, Dennis G. Michno, A Priest's Handbook, Morehouse 1998, p.75:

     Nothing else should be kept in the tabernacle or aumbry where the Sacrament is reserved, but a small container of water and a cloth may be kept on the shelf for cleansing one's fingers.

   • 2003, Wm. B. Eerdmans, translating Erwin Fahlbusch et al., The Encylopedia of Christianity, vol.III, p.321:

     Portions of the consecrated bread from the Eucharist were stored or reserved in an ambry or tabernacle to be taken to the sick.

Synonyms

• (armarium): armarium
• (cupboard): cupboard, pantry

Anagrams

• Byram, Mabry, barmy