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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀρχέτυπος (arkhétupos, “first-moulded”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “first, origin”) + τύπος (túpos, “sort, type, press”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
archetypus (feminine archetypa, neuter archetypum); first/second-declension adjective
- archetypical, original
1611, Johannes Kepler, Strena seu De Niva Sexangula, page 10:Hic illi archetypus a creatore impressus est.- Here this original (pattern) was impressed by the creator.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Further reading
- “archetypus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “archetypus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- archetypus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- archetypus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016