- archaic[archaic 词源字典]
- archaic: see archives
[archaic etymology, archaic origin, 英语词源] - 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.