archaic

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
    little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

Word Origin

archaic
archaic: see archives
archaic (adj.)
1810, from or by influence of French archaique (1776), ultimately from Greek arkhaikos "old-fashioned," from arkhaios "ancient," from arkhe "beginning" (see archon). Archaical is attested from 1799.

Example

1. But this archaic system may be poised to change .
2. The marxist terminology of bourgeois and proletarian has an archaic ring .
3. The script is derived from the phoenician alphabet and the dialect is an archaic form of aramaic .
4. The analysis adds new twists to prevailing notions about archaic human history .
5. Others warn that sunburst 's requirements can be avoided by such archaic practices as talking in person or by phone rather than by e-mail .

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