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prototypical
English
Etymology
prototype +? -ical
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p???t??t?p?k?l/, /?p???t??-/, /-?k?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?o?t??t?p?k?l/, /?p?o?to?-/, /-?k?l/
Adjective
prototypical (comparative more prototypical, superlative most prototypical)
- Constituting or representing an original type of something that others are modelled on or derived from.
Synonyms
- archetypal
- archetypic
- archetypical
- prototypic
Derived terms
- prototypically
Translations
See also
- stereotypical
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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
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