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From Latin repositōrium.
repository (plural repositories)
- A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
Synonym: depository- 1982 February 13, “Statuary Limitations”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 2:
Harvard has declined to become the repository of George Segal's controversial sculpture, "Gay Liberation."
- (archiving, computing) A storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.
Synonym: archive
Hyponyms: content repository, e-repository, data warehouse- 2025 April 1, Thomas Claburn, “Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it”, in The Register[1]:
OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April. - 2025 April 2, Bill Toulas, “Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concerns”, in BleepingComputer[2]:
Over the years, openSNP became one of the largest repositories of its kind, used in research, education, and even community-led investigations like debunking flawed CFS genetic studies.
- 2025 April 1, Thomas Claburn, “Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it”, in The Register[1]:
- A burial vault.
Hyponym: deep geological repository - (figurative) A person to whom a secret is entrusted.
- (dated) A place where things are stored for sale; a shop.
- 1982 February 13, “Statuary Limitations”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 2:
a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- Arabic: مَخْزَن m (maḵzan)
Moroccan Arabic: خزنة (ḵazna) - Armenian: պահեստ (hy) (pahest), շտեմարան (hy) (štemaran)
- Bulgarian: склад (bg) m (sklad), хранилище (bg) n (hranilište)
- Catalan: dipòsit (ca) m
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 倉庫 / 仓库 (zh) (cāngkù) - Czech: úložiště n
- Dutch: opslagplaats (nl) c, depot (nl) n, opslagruimte (nl) c
- Esperanto: deponejo
- Finnish: säilytyspaikka (fi), säilö (fi)
- French: chambre-forte f, coffre-fort (fr) m, repositoire (fr) m
- Georgian: საცავი (sacavi)
- German: Ablage (de) f, Depot (de) n, Archiv (de) n
- Greek: αποθήκη (el) f (apothíki), (software source) αποθετήριο (el) n (apothetírio)
Ancient Greek: ἀποθήκη f (apothḗkē) - Hungarian: tár (hu), adattár (hu), gyűjtemény (hu), archívum (hu), lerakat (hu), raktár (hu), tárház (hu), tároló (hu), megőrző (hu)
- Italian: ripostiglio (it), ricettacolo (it)
- Japanese: 倉庫 (ja) (そうこ, sōko)
- Latin: receptāculum n, apothēca f
- Macedonian: склад m (sklad), скла́диште n (skládište), храни́лиште n (hranílište) (archaic), стова́риште n (stovárište)
- Persian: مخزن (fa) (maxzan)
- Polish: składnica (pl) f, magazyn (pl) m, skład (pl) m, przechowalnia (pl) f, repozytorium (pl) n
- Portuguese: repositório (pt) m
- Russian: храни́лище (ru) n (xranílišče), склад (ru) m (sklad), вмести́лище (ru) n (vmestílišče)
- Spanish: repositorio (es) m
- Swedish: lager (sv)
- Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: انبار (anbar), مخزن (mahzen) - Ukrainian: сховище n (sxovyšče)
storage location for computer files
- Armenian: շտեմարան (hy) (štemaran)
- Bulgarian: хранилище (bg) n (hranilište)
- Catalan: repositori m
- Chinese:
Mandarin: (please verify) 庫 / 库 (zh) (kù), 倉 / 仓 (zh) (cāng), 倉庫 / 仓库 (zh) (cāngkù) - Czech: úložiště n
- Finnish: varasto (fi)
- French: dépôt (fr) m, référentiel (fr) m, répertoire (fr) m
- Greek: αποθετήριο (el) n (apothetírio)
- Polish: repozytorium (pl) n
- Russian: репозито́рий (ru) m (repozitórij),
- Spanish: repositorio (es) m
- Swedish: repositorium (sv) n
a burial vault
- Bulgarian: гробница (bg) f (grobnica)
- Dutch: grafkelder (nl) c
- Finnish: hautaholvi
- French: tombeau (fr) m, mausolée (fr) m
- Italian: sepolcro (it), tomba (it), mausoleo (it), cripta (it)
- Macedonian: гро́бница f (gróbnica)
- Polish: grobowiec (pl) m
- Russian: склеп (ru) m (sklep)
a person to whom a secret is entrusted
- Armenian: վստահելի անձ (vstaheli anj)
- Bulgarian: довереник (bg) m (doverenik), довереница f (doverenica), довереничка f (doverenička)
- Catalan: dipositari m
- Dutch: vertrouweling (nl) c
- Finnish: luottohenkilö
- French: dépositaire (fr) m
- Greek: μυστικοσύμβουλος (el) m (mystikosýmvoulos)
- Italian: depositario (it), confidente (it)
- Māori: pūkenga
- Polish: powiernik (pl) m, powierniczka (pl) f
- Russian: дове́ренное лицо́ n (dovérennoje licó)
- Spanish: depositario (es) m
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