Meaning
archive, records
- filing cabinet
In a sentence
Ho trovato la foto nell'archivio del giornale.
I found the photo in the newspaper archive.
Hai messo i contratti nell'archivio in ufficio?
Did you put the contracts in the filing cabinet at the office?
L'archivio della scuola non è aperto oggi.
The school's archive isn't open today.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| archivio | masculine · singular |
| archivi | masculine · plural |
Usage notes
- For digital data, Italians often say archivio or archivio digitale; for a computer folder, use cartella, not archivio.
- Archivio is masculine: l'archivio, gli archivi. Learners often confuse it with biblioteca, which is specifically a library.
- For the furniture sense, archivio is less common in everyday speech; schedario or classificatore is often more natural.