archivesの意味・使い方・発音

archives

英 ['a:kaivz] 美

archives: archives: [17] The Greek verb arkhein meant originally ‘begin’ – and hence ‘be in first place, rule’. This sense development lies behind the diversity in meaning of the words ultimately derived from it in English. Greek arkheion was the official residence of a ruler, a ‘public office’, and its plural, arkheia, was used for ‘public records’; it passed into English via Latin archīa, later archīva, and French archives.

Greek arkhē, on the other hand, had the sense ‘beginning’, and the adjective formed from it, arkhaios, later arkhaikós, ‘ancient’, came through French archa?que into English as archaic [19] (arkhaios is also the source of archaeology [17]). The same split in meaning is evident in the prefix arch-, which comes from the same source: in archetype, for instance, it signifies ‘first’, whereas in archduke it implies ‘highest in rank’.
=> archaic, archetype
archives (n.): c. 1600, from French archif (16c.), from Late Latin archivum (singular), from Greek ta arkheia "public records," plural of arkheion "town hall," from arkhe "government," literally "beginning, origin, first place" (see archon).

1. The society 's archives are a treasure trove for scholars.: この協会のファイルは学者にとっては宝のようなものだ。

2.The picture lay hidden in the archives for over 40 years.: この写真は40年以上アーカイブ室に隠されています。

3.The emperor 's decrees and letters were in the national archives .

皇帝の御令状と手紙は国家文書館に保存されています。

4.Can you dig the material out of the archives ？

この材料をファイルから調べることができますか。

5.He delved into the family archives looking for the facts.: 彼はこの家族の系譜を深く調べて事実の根拠を探した。