English

filestore

From file + store.

A compound of file + store

Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo- ‘sinew’

Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom

Latin fīlum ‘thread’

Old French fil ‘thread’

English file

Latin īnstaurō ‘to renew, set up’

Anglo-Norman stor

Middle English store ‘supplies’

English store

Today it means

noun A conceptual space where files are stored.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / filestore