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Latin
Etymology
From typus + -icus, or directly borrowed from Ancient Greek τυπικός (tupikós).
Pronunciation
Adjective
typicus (feminine typica, neuter typicum); first/second-declension adjective
- figurative, typical
- periodic
- (New Latin, taxonomy, zoology) When it is the specific epithet of a binomial name, indicates it is the type species.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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Descendants
References
- “typicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- typicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- typicus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016