archivist

English

Etymology

archive +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

• enPR: /är'kə-vĭst/ or är'kī'-vĭst/, IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)kəvɪst/, /ˈɑː(ɹ)ˌkaɪvɪst/

Noun

archivist (plural archivists)

1. One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing, and organising, archives.

   The billionaire’s will established a trust to create a staff of archivists that would chronicle and preserve his rise to prominence.

Synonyms

• (one who creates, maintains or controls archives): historian, librarian, preservationist, recordkeeper, scribe

Translations

one who creates, maintains or controls archives

• Afrikaans: argivaris
• Albanian: arkivist (sq) m, arkiviste (sq) f
• Armenian: արխիվարիուս (hy) (arxivarius)
• Asturian: archivero m, archivera f
• Azerbaijani: arxivçi
• Basque: agirizain, artxibozain
• Breton: diellour m
• Bulgarian: архивар (bg) m (arhivar)
• Catalan: arxiver m, arxivista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 档案员 (dǎng'àn yuán)

• Czech: archivář (cs) m, archivářka f
• Danish: arkivar c
• Dutch: archivaris (nl) m
• Esperanto: arkivisto, arĥivisto
• Faroese: skjalavørður m
• Finnish: arkistonhoitaja (fi)
• French: archiviste (fr) m or f
• Galician: arquivista m or f, arquiveiro m, arquiveira f
• German: Archivar (de) m, Archivarin (de) f
• Greek: αρχειοφύλακας (el) m or f (archeiofýlakas)
• Hindi: पुराभिलेखपाल m (purābhilekhpāl)
• Hungarian: levéltáros (hu), levéltárosnő (hu)
• Icelandic: skjalavörður m
• Ido: arkivisto (io)
• Indonesian: arsiparis
• Interlingua: archivista
• Interlingue:
• Irish: cartlannaí m
• Italian: archivista (it) m or f
• Japanese: アーキビスト (ja) (ākibisuto)
• Kannada: ಸಂಗ್ರಹಕಾರರನ್ನು (saṅgrahakārarannu)
• Kazakh: мұрағатшы (mūrağatşy)
• Korean: 기록연구사 (girogyeon'gusa)
• Kurdish: ,
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• Kyrgyz: архивчи (ky) (arhivci)
• Latin: archeota m
• Latvian: arhivārs m
• Lithuanian: archyvaras m
• Luxembourgish: Archivist m, Archivistin f
• Macedonian: архивар m (arhivar), архивистка f (arhivistka)
• Manx: recortysser m
• Mongolian: архивч (arxivč)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arkivar (no) m

  Nynorsk: arkivar m

• Occitan: archivista (oc) m or f
• Polish: archiwista (pl) m pers, archiwistka (pl) f, archiwariusz (pl) m pers, archiwariuszka f
• Portuguese: arquivista (pt) m or f, arquivador m
• Romanian: arhivist (ro) m, arhivistă (ro) f, arhivar (ro) m, arhivarka f
• Russian: архива́риус (ru) m (arxivárius), архиви́ст (ru) m (arxivíst), архиви́стка (ru) f (arxivístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: архѝва̄р m, архѝвист m, архѝва̄рка f, архѝвисткиња f

  Roman: arhìvār (sh) m, arhìvist (sh) m, arhìvārka (sh) f, arhìvistkinja (sh) f

• Slovak: archivár m, archivárka f
• Slovene: arhivar (sl) m, arhivarka f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: archiwar m, archiwarka f

  Upper Sorbian: archiwar m, archiwarka f

• Spanish: archivista m or f, archivero m, archivera f
• Swedish: arkivarie (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagasinop
• Tajik: архивчӣ (arxivči)
• Turkish: arşivci (tr)
• Ukrainian: архіва́ріус (uk) m (arxivárius)
• Uzbek: arxivarius (uz), arxivchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: chuyên viên lưu trữ
• Welsh: archifydd m
• West Frisian: argivaris

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Etymology

Probably borrowed or from archief +‎ -ist. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑr.xiˈvɪst/

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• Hyphenation: ar‧chi‧vist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

archivist m (plural archivisten, diminutive archivistje n)

1. (uncommon) archivist

   Synonym: archivaris