different between archetype vs apotheosis

English

Etymology

From Old French architipe (modern French archétype), from Latin archetypum (“original”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (arkhétupon, “model, pattern”), the neuter form of ????????? (arkhétupos, “first-moulded”), from ???? (arkh?, “beginning, origin”) (from ???? (árkh?, “to begin; to lead, rule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erg?- (“to begin; to command, rule”)) + ?????? (túpos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from ????? (túpt?, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k?ta?p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k?ta?p/
• Hyphenation: ar?che?type

Noun

archetype (plural archetypes)

1. An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype. [from mid 16th c.]
2. An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
3. (literature) A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
4. (psychology) According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
5. (textual criticism) A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).

Usage notes

Traditionally, archetype refers to the model upon which something is based, but it has also come to mean an example of a personality archetype, particularly a fictional character in a story based on a well-established personality model. In this fashion, a character based on the Jesus archetype might be referred to as a "Jesus archetype". See eponym for a similar usage conflict.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:model

Derived terms

• archetypal
• archetypally
• archetypical
• archetypically

Translations

Verb

archetype (third-person singular simple present archetypes, present participle archetyping, simple past and past participle archetyped)

1. To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.

Translations

Further reading

• archetype on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Adjective

archetype

1. vocative masculine singular of archetypus

English

Etymology

From Latin apothe?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (apothé?sis), from verb ??????? (apotheó?, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from ???? (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ???- (apo-)) + -??? (-sis, “forms noun of action”). Surface analysis apo- +? theo- +? -sis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p??.i????.s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p??.?i?o?.s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s?s

Noun

apotheosis (countable and uncountable, plural apotheoses)

1. The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.

   Synonym: deification

   • 1986, SRF Price, Rituals and Power, p. 75:

   • 2002, CE Newlands, Statius' Silvae and the Politics of Empire, p. 176:

2. Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.

   Synonyms: exaltation, glorification

   • 1974, Per Lord Hailsham, Smedleys Ltd v Breed [1974]2 All ER 21(HL) at 24:

3. A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).

   Synonyms: apex, paragon

   • 1925, William Carlos Williams, 'Edgar Allan Poe', In The American Grain, 1990, p. 232:
4. The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).

   Synonyms: apex, climax, culmination, peak, pinnacle

5. (loosely) Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.

   Synonym: death

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

6. (psychology) The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.

Derived terms

• apotheosize
• apotheotic

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• apoth. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (apothé?sis), from verb ??????? (apotheó?, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from ???? (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ???- (apo-)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.po.t?e?o?.sis/, [äp?t??e?o?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.po.te?o.sis/, [?p?t?????s?is]

Noun

apothe?sis f (genitive apothe?sis); third declension

1. apotheosis, deification

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

References

• apotheosis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apotheosis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• apotheosis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apotheosis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin