Tar etymology

English

English word tar comes from Ancient Greek (to 1453) ἀρχεῖον, and later Latin archivum (Archive room. Archives. Public records office.)

Etymology of tar

Detailed word origin of tar

Dictionary entry Language Definition
ἀρχεῖον Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
archivum Latin (lat) Archive room. Archives. Public records office.
archive French (fr) (in the plural) archive, archives. An item in an archive, a document kept for historical interest.
archive English (en) To put into an archive. A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.. The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
tar English (en) (computing) A file produced by such a program.. (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix. (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.

Words with the same origin as tar

Descendants of ἀρχεῖον

archive