archetype
Plural: archetypes
Noun
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
- An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.
- An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
- 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.
- A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
Verb
- To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
Origin / Etymology
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”)).
Scrabble Score: 19
archetype: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordarchetype: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
archetype: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 19
archetype: valid Words With Friends Word