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arhivă

archive /arˈhivə/

noun#4801 most common

Also: records office, archives (collection of documents)

Example sentences

Aceasta este o arhivă.
This is an archive.
Am pus documentele în arhivă.
I put the documents in the archive.
Arhiva orașului conține fotografii vechi.
The city's archive contains old photographs.
Am petrecut ore întregi cercetând arhivele naționale.
I spent hours researching the national archives.
Fișierele au fost mutate într-o arhivă digitală pentru a economisi spațiu.
The files were moved to a digital archive to save space.
Istoricii au găsit în arhiva secretă documente care rescriu o parte din istoria țării.
Historians found documents in the secret archive that rewrite part of the country's history.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativearhivăarhive
Genitivearhiveiarhivelor
Accusativearhivăarhive
Vocativearhivoarhivelor

Word family

a arhivato archive, to file away
arhivararchivist
arhivatarchived, filed away
arhivisticăarchival science

Etymology

Romanian borrowed "arhivă" from French "archives", which traces back to Greek "arkheion", meaning a public building or government record office. That Greek noun comes from "arkhē", meaning rule or government, tied to the verb "arkhein", to be first or to rule. The word entered Romanian in the 19th century as part of a wave of French and Latinate vocabulary that modernized administrative language.

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