archetypus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἀρχέτυπος (arkhétupos, “first-moulded”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “first, origin”) + τύπος (túpos, “sort, type, press”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /arˈkʰe.ty.pus/, [ärˈkʰɛt̪ʏpʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /arˈke.ti.pus/, [ärˈkɛːt̪ipus]
Adjective[edit]
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[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | archetypus | archetypa | archetypum | archetypī | archetypae | archetypa | |
| Genitive | archetypī | archetypae | archetypī | archetypōrum | archetypārum | archetypōrum | |
| Dative | archetypō | archetypō | archetypīs | ||||
| Accusative | archetypum | archetypam | archetypum | archetypōs | archetypās | archetypa | |
| Ablative | archetypō | archetypā | archetypō | archetypīs | |||
| Vocative | archetype | archetypa | archetypum | archetypī | archetypae | archetypa | |
Further reading[edit]
- “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[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016