ARCHAIC

adjective Etymology: French or Greek; French archaïque, from Greek archaïkos, from archaios Date: 1832 having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses , of, relating to, or characteristic of an earlier or more primitive time ; antiquated , of or belonging to the early or formative phases of a culture or a period of artistic development, surviving from an earlier period, of or relating to the period from about 8000 B.C. to 1000 B.C. and the North American cultures of that time, see: old ~ally adverb