different between genre vs archetype

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre (“kind”), from Latin genus, generem (cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (génos)), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os. Doublet of gender, genus, and kin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /(d)??n.??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /(d)??n.??/, /(d)??n.??/
• (nonstandard, francophonic) IPA^(key): /d???n?/

Noun

genre (plural genres)

1. A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

   The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.

   The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.

   • 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music (page 38)

     One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.

Synonyms

• kind
• type
• class
• See also Thesaurus:class

Derived terms

Related terms

• genre fiction
• genre film
• gender
• general
• generate
• genus

Translations

Anagrams

• Egner, Geren, Green, Green., green, neger, regen

Danish

Etymology

From French genre (“kind, style”), from Latin genus (“type, kind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??????]

Noun

genre c (singular definite genren, plural indefinite genrer)

1. genre, a special type of literature, music or art with its own defining features

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n.r?/
• Hyphenation: gen?re

Noun

genre n (plural genres)

1. kind, type, genre

Anagrams

• enger, neger, regen

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??enre/, [??e?nre?]
• Rhymes: -enre
• Syllabification: gen?re

Noun

genre

1. genre

Declension

Synonyms

• lajityyppi

French

Etymology

From Latin genus (compare stem of the genitive generis), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os. Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (génos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/
• Homophone: genres
• Hyphenation: genre

Noun

genre m (plural genres)

1. kind

2. style

3. (grammar) gender (of nouns)

4. (grammar) voice (of verbs)
5. gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc)

6. (biology) genus

7. look, type

8. (archaic, colloquial) the done thing

Derived terms

• BCBG, bon chic bon genre
• cisgenre, transgenre
• en tous genres
• en tout genre
• faire genre
• genre humain
• unique en son genre

Descendants

• ? English: genre
• ? Russian: ???? (žanr)
  • ? Kazakh: ???? (janr)

Particle

genre

1. (colloquial) like

   Je suis genre rarement enervé.

Further reading

• “genre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• « Genre », un tic de langage dont la signification glisse à mesure que sa popularité augmente, Clara Cini, lemonde.fr, 10 February 2021.

Anagrams

• gêner
• nègre
• règne, régné

Norman

Etymology

From Latin genus, generis, from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os (compare Ancient Greek ????? (génos)).

Noun

genre m (plural genres)

1. (grammar, etc.) gender

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French genre

Noun

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrer, definite plural genrene)

1. a genre

Synonyms

• sjanger

References

• “genre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “genre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French genre.

Noun

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrar, definite plural genrane)

1. a genre

Synonyms

• sjanger

References

• “genre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹?a??r/
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

genre c

1. a genre

Declension

Anagrams

• gener, green, neger

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