archetype
An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely…An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned.
» My characters all have something of the hero archetype about them, in that they are largely stripped of context.
Meaning
5 sensesAn original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned.
Near-synonym: prototype (sometimes synonymous)
Urbild, Prototyp, Archetyp
архети́пarxetíp, образе́цobrazéc, оригина́лoriginál
An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
образе́цobrazéc
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.
Archetyp
архети́пarxetíp
A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
Examples
4 sentencesMy characters all have something of the hero archetype about them, in that they are largely stripped of context.
The clarity of the tax code was good enough to become the archetype of perspicuous writing in the lawyer's cohort.
Mr. Jackson fits the archetype of a wizard.
Jordan Peterson is an expert on Jungian archetypes and other bullshit with no relation to anybody's lives.
Translations
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Origin
From Old French architipe (modern French archétype), from Latin archetypum (“original”), fFrom 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; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)).
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Forms
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