different between reliquary vs archive

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French reliquaire (modern French reliquaire), from Late Latin reliquiarium, from r?liquia (“a relic”) (English relic), noun use of reliquus (“abandoned, left behind, relict”), from relinqu? (“I relinquish”), from re- (“again”) and linqu? (“I leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leik?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l?kw??i/, /???l?kw??i/

Noun

reliquary (plural reliquaries)

1. A container to hold or display religious relics.
2. (figuratively) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
3. (law) A person who owes a balance.

Related terms

• relic

Translations

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.