B1💻 Technology
Italian word
archivio
archive (digital archive), filing cabinet, records office
Looks like
archive
archive (historical records, to archive a file)
⚠️ The trap
A near-perfect cognate, but 'archivio' in Italian also refers to a physical filing room or records office in a government building. Learners may over-generalise it to mean any old file storage.
To say "archive (historical records, to archive a file)" in Italian:
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"archivio" in English means:
archive (digital archive), filing cabinet, records office
Example
"Ho trovato la fattura vecchia nell'archivio digitale."
"I found the old invoice in the digital archive."
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