archival en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈɑːkɪv(ə)l/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˌɑɹˈkaɪv(ə)l/ (General-American)
- /ɑːˈkaɪv(ə)l/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (US) audio Audio (US)
Etymology
The adjective is derived from archive (“place for storing earlier, and often historical, material; material so kept, considered as a whole”, noun) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). The noun is derived from archive (“to put (something) in an archive”, verb) + -al (suffix forming nouns, especially of verbal action).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
In archival photographs, these lost structures appear almost futuristic (even today) in the way they carried trains across deep ravines on slender, balanced combinations of wrought and cast iron.
2021 March 24, Joseph Brennan, “Metallic Marvels from Rail’s Iron Age”, in Rail, number 927, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:
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(not-comparable) Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving.
archival boxes archival paper
Deriveds
prearchival · archivally · archivalism · nonarchival · archival science
Relateds
archivize · archive · e-archive · national archive · archivist
Translations (17)
cs archivní (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · mk архивски (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · uk архі́вний (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · be архі́ўны (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · fi arkisto- (of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving) · fr archivistique (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · it di archiviazione (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · it archivistico (of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving) · lt archỹvinis (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · cs archívní (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · ru архи́вный (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · pt arquivístico (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · fi arkistokelpoinen (of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving) · fi arkisto- (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · it d'archiviazione (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · pl archiwalny (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving) · pt arquival (of or pertaining to an archive or archiving)