archetype
nounEtymology
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; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)).
- derived from *(s)tewp-✻
- derived from *h₂ergʰ-✻
- derived from ἀρχέτυπον
- derived from archetypum
- derived from architipe
Definitions
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.
- Near-synonym: prototype (sometimes synonymous)
An ideal example of something
An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
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According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung
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”).
- The outstanding importance of this manuscript for the text of Aeschylus has long been recognized. In the last century some scholars even persuaded themselves that it was the archetype of the whole extant tradition.
To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
- His collaborator was Robert Singer, a professor of English and film studies at Kingsborough Community College, who lamented this week that he and his fellow Brooklynites "have been archetyped to death."
The neighborhood
- synonymmodel
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at archetype. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at archetype. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at archetype
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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