archetypum Latin · revision 9134

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Varro|origins=grc ἀρχέτυπον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [arˈkʰɛ.ty.pũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [arˈkɛː.ti.pum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''archetypum''' ''n'' (genitive archetypī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''archetypon''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἀρχέτυπον|tr=arkhétupon|t=original, pattern]], the neuter of ⟨archetypus⟩ used as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Varro, whom he dates 116–27 BC, and Gaffiot cites his ''De re rustica''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant an original, a pattern, a model, as in Varro and Pliny the Younger.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ It survives in Italian ''archetipo'' and Spanish ''arquetipo'', and gave [[en|archetype]] in the 1540s or about 1600, “model, first form”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ * c. 1600 – English ''archetype'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An original, pattern, [[m|en|archetype]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[archetypus]]

+ * [[en|archetype]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}