different between archetype vs ectype

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

Noun

ectype (plural ectypes)

1. (philosophy) A copy, usually contrasted with the original, or archetype.
   • 2001, Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review, Issues 170-172, page 30,

     If my account is correct, both archetypes and ectypes are 'real' insofar as they are composed of ideas of sensation. But I draw a distinction that Johnson does not acknowledge, viz., a distinction between ontological and epistemic ectypes.

   • 2004, Jean-Luc Marion, James K. A. Smith (translator), The Crossing of the Visible, page 38,

     The painting traces itself from itself by suddenly appearing in these ectypes. But the ectypes only mark the final accomplishment of this sudden appearance.
2. An idea or impression that corresponds to external reality.

Related terms

• ectypal

French

Noun

ectype f (plural ectypes)

1. ectype