Archiac vs. Archaic

Archiac

Archiac (French pronunciation: ​[aʁʃjak]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Archiacais or Archiacaises.

Archaicnoun

A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Indian Paleo-Indian]’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).

Archaicnoun

(paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.

Archaicadjective

Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.

Archaicadjective

(of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.

Archaicadjective

(archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period

Archaicadjective

Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Archaicadjective

so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;

Archaicadjective

little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type;