τύπος

From τῠ́πτω (túptō, “I poke, beat”).^[1]

τῠ́πος • (túpos) m (genitive τῠ́που); second declension

1. A blow, pressing
2. The results of a blow: mark, impression
3. mark, figure, image, outline
4. General character of a thing: sort, type
5. text, content
6. pattern, example, model
7. summoning

• τυπικός (tupikós)

• → Aramaic: טופסא
• → Old Armenian: տիպ (tip)
• → Greek: τύπος (týpos)
• → Hebrew: טִיפּוּס (típus)
• → Latin: typus (see there for further descendants)

• “τύπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τύπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τύπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G5179 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adumbration idem, page 13.
  • appearance idem, page 35.
  • archetype idem, page 38.
  • cast idem, page 116.
  • character idem, page 125.
  • contour idem, page 169.
  • design idem, page 215.
  • die idem, page 222.
  • draft idem, page 249.
  • fashion idem, page 308.
  • feature idem, page 313.
  • form idem, page 338.
  • impress idem, page 423.
  • impression idem, page 423.
  • imprint idem, page 424.
  • lineaments idem, page 493.
  • mark idem, page 514.
  • mould idem, page 543.
  • outline idem, page 582.
  • pattern idem, page 599.
  • plan idem, page 617.
  • print idem, page 641.
  • rough idem, page 722.
  • scheme idem, page 739.
  • shape idem, page 762.
  • stamp idem, page 810.
  • symbol idem, page 850.
  • type idem, page 904.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).

The colloquial meaning of "guy, chap" is a semantic loan from French type. Sense "the press", semantic loan from French presse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.pos/
• Hyphenation: τύ‧πος

τύπος • (týpos) m (plural τύποι)

1. sort, type, mould, stamp (of a person character)
2. model, type (of car, etc)
3. shape, form
4. the press, the newspapers collectively
5. formality, convention
6. (chemistry, mathematics) formula
7. (colloquial) a man, a guy, a chap

• τύπος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language