different between archetype vs typology

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.

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Further reading

• archetype on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Adjective

archetype

1. vocative masculine singular of archetypus

English

Etymology

type +? -ology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta??p?l.?.d??i/

Noun

typology (countable and uncountable, plural typologies)

1. The study of symbolic representation, especially of the origin and meaning of Scripture types.
2. The systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics.
3. (archaeology) The result of the classification of things according to their characteristics.
4. (linguistics) Classification of languages according to their linguistic trait (as opposed to ancestrality like Romance languages).
5. (religion) The doctrine of Scripture types or figures.

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Derived terms

Related terms

• type
• typification

See also

• taxonomy
• value domain

Anagrams

• logotypy