1. very old or old-fashioned: "prisons are run on archaic methods"
▪ (of a word or a style of language) no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavour: "a term with a rather archaic ring to it"
▪ of an early period of art or culture, especially the 7th–6th centuries bc in Greece:"the archaic temple at Corinth"
Word Originmid 19th century: from French archaïque, from Greek arkhaikos, from arkhaios, from arkhē ‘beginning’.
