different between maquette vs prototype

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French maquette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæ?k?t/

Noun

maquette (plural maquettes)

1. A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
   • 2009, Joe Fig, Inside the Painter's Studio (page 51)

     And I thought, if I can imagine this place in real life, I can build it in the studio and then paint from the maquette as if it were a real landscape. In terms of process this was a breakthrough for me […]

Translations

Verb

maquette (third-person singular simple present maquettes, present participle maquetting, simple past and past participle maquetted)

1. (art, transitive, intransitive, rare) To prepare a maquette (of).

French

Etymology

From Italian macchietta (“speck, little spot”), diminutive of macchia (“spot”), ultimately from Latin macula (“spot, stain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.k?t/

Noun

maquette f (plural maquettes)

1. model, mock-up

Derived terms

• maquettiste

Descendants

• ? Catalan: maqueta
• ? English: maquette
• ? German: Maquette, Makette
• ? Greek: ?????? (makéta)
• ? Portuguese: maquete, maqueta
• ? Romanian: machet?

Further reading

• “maquette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pr?tótupos, “original; prototype”), from ?????- (pr?to-, “prefix meaning ‘first’”) (from ?????? (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + ?????? (túpos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from ????? (túpt?, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- +? -type.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???t?t??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?o?t??ta?p/, /-??-/
• Hyphenation: pro?to?type

Noun

prototype (plural prototypes)

1. An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models. [from late 16th c.]
2. An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
3. (computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
4. (semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
5. (motor racing) A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.

Synonyms

• (basis for other forms or objects): see Thesaurus:exemplar
• (motorsport): racing prototype, sports prototype, prototype racecar

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• antetype
• first article

Verb

prototype (third-person singular simple present prototypes, present participle prototyping, simple past and past participle prototyped)

1. (transitive) To create a prototype of.

Translations

References

Further reading

• prototype on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?totypus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pr?tótupos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t?.tip/

Noun

prototype m (plural prototypes)

1. prototype

Derived terms

• prototypique

Further reading

• “prototype” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• prototyp

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????- (pr?to-) + ????? (túpos)

Noun

prototype m (definite singular prototypen, indefinite plural prototyper, definite plural prototypene)

1. a prototype

References

• “prototype” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• prototyp

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????- (pr?to-) + ????? (túpos)

Noun

prototype m (definite singular prototypen, indefinite plural prototypar, definite plural prototypane)

1. a prototype

References

• “prototype” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.