archetype

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.

Origin

  • From Old French architipe (modern French archétype), from Latin archetypum ("original"), from Ancient Greek ἀρχέτυπον ("model, pattern"), the neuter form of ἀρχέτυπος, from ἀρχή (from ἄρχω, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- ("to begin; to command, rule")) + τῠ́πος (from τύπτω, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- ("to push; to stick")).

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