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archetype
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)
- 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.]
- An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
- (literature) A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
- (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.
- (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)
- 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
- vocative masculine singular of archetypus
archetype From the web:
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myth
English
Alternative forms
- mythe (rare or archaic)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (mûthos, “word, humour, companion, speech, account, rumour, fable”). Attested in English since 1830. Doublet of mythos.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?th, IPA(key): /m??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
myth (plural myths)
- A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
- (uncountable) Such stories as a genre.
- Myth was the product of man's emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings. (E. Clodd, Myths & Dreams (1885), 7, cited after OED)
- A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.
- Synonym: misconception
- Scientists debunk the myth that gum stays in the human stomach for seven years.
- A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
- Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth. (Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, 20 September 1979, 5A/3, cited after OED)
- A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
- 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons
- As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years.
- 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons
- An invented story, theory, or concept.
- His story is a pure myth.
Related terms
Translations
See also
- legend
Further reading
- myth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- myth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- "myth" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 210.
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /m???/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /mi??/
Noun
myth
- Nasal mutation of byth.
Mutation
myth From the web:
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