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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1609|origins=grc τύπος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la-med|typicālis|t=symbolic, figurative]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998) from Late Latin typicus “of a type”,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from [[grc|τυπικός|tr=typikós]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from [[grc|τύπος|tr=týpos|t=impression, model; symbol, emblem]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) the source of [[type]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ “Symbolic, emblematic, serving as a type”: 1609 in Merriam-Webster,^(MWU 2024) about 1600 in Etymonline,^(Etymonline) 1612 in the OED and Barnhart, implied in typically from 1605.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) Johnson in 1755 still defined it as “emblematical; figurative of something else”.^(Johnson 1755)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The sense development began in natural history, where a species “serving as the type of a genus or family” is typical, by 1847.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) The general sense “conforming to a type, characteristic” is from 1850,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) and “having the qualities of a representative specimen” from 1860.^(OED 1989) An old sense, “of printers' type, typographical”, from 1770, is now rare or obsolete.^(OED 1989)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1605 – implied in ''typically''.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1609 – symbolic.^(MWU 2024)

+ * 1770 – typographical.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1847 – in natural history.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1850 – characteristic.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Having the qualities that identify a kind, class or group; [[representative]]: ''a typical suburb''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Characteristic or [[distinctive]]: ''typical of her generosity''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Conforming to a type; normal.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # ''(archaic)'' Symbolic, [[emblematic]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[typically]]

+ * [[typicality]]

+ * [[typicalness]]

+ * [[nontypical]]

+ * [[untypical]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[typal]]

+ * [[type]]

+ * [[typic]]

+ * [[typify]]

+ * [[atypical]]

+ * [[prototype]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}