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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
archetype From the web:
- what archetype am i
- what archetype does antigone represent
- what archetype does helen represent
- what archetype is circe in the odyssey
- what archetype is penelope in the odyssey
- what archetype is athena in the odyssey
- what archetype is odysseus
- what archetype is lennie
specimen
English
Etymology
From Latin specimen (“mark, sign, example”), from speci? (“observe, watch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?s?m?n/
- Hyphenation: spe?ci?men
Noun
specimen (plural specimens or (extremely rare) specimina)
- An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
- early specimens of the art of Picasso
- (numismatics) A banknote printed for distribution to central banks to aid in the recognition of banknotes from a country other than their own
- (philately) A postage stamp sent to postmasters and postal administrations so that they are able to identify valid stamps and to avoid forgeries
- A sample, especially one used for diagnostic analysis.
- (humorous, often preceded with “fine”) An eligible man.
Synonyms
- sample
- individual
Related terms
- species
Translations
Interlingua
Noun
specimen (plural specimens)
- specimen, sample
Latin
Etymology
From speci? (“observe, watch”) +? -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?spe.ki.men/, [?s?p?k?m?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?spe.t??i.men/, [?sp??t??im?n]
Noun
specimen n (genitive speciminis); third declension
- mark, token, sign, indication
- example, pattern, model
- ornament, honor
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
- Catalan: espècimen
- English: specimen
- French: specimen
- Portuguese: espécime
- Spanish: espécimen
References
- specimen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- specimen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- specimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- specimen in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Romanian
Etymology
From French spécimen.
Noun
specimen n (plural specimene)
- specimen
Declension
specimen From the web:
- what specimens need to be chilled
- what specimen means
- what specimens need to be protected from light
- what specimen should be protected from light
- what specimen must be protected from light
- what specimen is used to inoculate an enterotube
- what specimens require protection from light
- what specimens can be centrifuged immediately
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