archetype
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːkɪtaɪp/
The English word “archetype” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned.
- An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
- A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
- 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.
- A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
verb
Etymology
From Old French architipe (modern French archétype), from Latin archetypum (“original”), from Ancient Greek ἀρχέτυπον (arkhétupon, “model, pattern”), the neuter form of ἀρχέτυπος (arkhétupos, “first-moulded”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning, origin”) (from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to begin; to lead, rule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin; to command, rule”)) + τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “blow, pressing;…
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