3 January 2015
archetype
[ahr-ki-tahyp]
noun
1. the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
2. (in Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.
Origin
Latin, Greek
1595-1605; < Latin archetypum an original < Greek archétypon a model, pattern (neuter of archétypos of the first mold, equivalent to arche- arche- + týp (os) mold, type + -os adj. suffix)
Related forms
archetypal, archetypical [ahr-ki-tip-i-kuh l], archetypic, adjective
archetypally, archetypically, adverb
Can be confused
archetype, prototype.
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Examples from the web for archetype
– It is difficult to establish any archetype for failure from the past two years.
– The emperor himself was an archetype of what the modern world calls a constitutional monarch: he reigned but did not govern.
– Short-term electricity is the very archetype of an extremely inelastic good
Anagram
peach tyre
preach yet
cheat prey
yacht peer
Today’s aphorism
When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
– Alexander Graham Bell
On this day
3 January 106BC – birth of Marcus Tullius Cicero (sometimes anglicised as Tully), Roman statesman, politician, philosopher, orator. Tully’s influence on Latin and other European languages was immense and still felt up to the 19th century. The history of prose in Latin and other languages was said to be either a reaction against, or a return to, his style. Died 7 December 43BC.
3 January 1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
3 January 1892 – birth of J.R.R. Tolkien, author of ‘The Hobbit‘ and ‘Lord of the Rings‘. Died 2 September 1973. ‘The road goes ever on … ‘
3 January 1956 – birth of Mel Gibson, Australian actor.
3 January 1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
3 January 1969 – birth of Michael Schumacher, German Formula 1 racing car driver.
3 January 1977 – Apple Computers is incorporated.