unarchivable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English archivable

English unarchivable

From un- + archivable.

Adjective

unarchivable (not comparable)

1. Incapable of being archived.
   • 2002, Mary Ann Doane, The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive, page 102:

     The photograph isolates a moment in time and engraves what would otherwise be an ephemeral instant, unarchivable.