archetype

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archetype

archetype: [17] Archetype comes, via Latin archetypum, from Greek arkhétupon, a nominal use of the adjective arkhétupos, literally ‘firstmoulded’, from túpos ‘mould, model, type’. The Greek prefix arkhe- was based on the noun arkhos ‘chief, ruler’, a derivative of the verb arkhein ‘begin, rule’ (see ARCHIVES). It first entered our language (via Latin archi-) in the Old English period, as arce- (archbishop was an early compound formed with it); and it was reborrowed in the Middle English period from Old French arche-.

Its use has gradually extended from ‘highest in status’ and ‘first of its kind’ to ‘the ultimate – and usually the worst – of its kind’, as in archcraitor. Its negative connotations lie behind its eventual development, in the 17th century, into an independent adjective, first as ‘cunning, crafty’, later as ‘saucy, mischievous’. The same Greek root has provided English with the suffixes -arch and -archy (as in monarch, oligarchy); but here the original meaning of ‘ruling’ has been preserved much more stably.
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archetype (n.)

"original pattern from which copies are made," 1540s [Barnhart] or c. 1600 [OED], from Latin archetypum, from Greek arkhetypon "pattern, model, figure on a seal," neuter of adjective arkhetypos "first-moulded," from arkhe- "first" (see archon) + typos "model, type, blow, mark of a blow" (see type). Jungian psychology sense of "pervasive idea or image from the collective unconscious" is from 1919. Jung defined archetypal images as "forms or images of a collective nature which occur practically all over the earth as constituents of myths and at the same time as autochthonous individual products of unconscious origin." ["Psychology and Religion" 1937]

双语例句

1. She is the archetype of an American movie star.

她是典型的美国影星。

来自《权威词典》

2. Old Mr. Duff is the archetype of the elderly British gentleman.

年迈的达夫先生是英国老绅士的典型代表.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. He came to this country 20 years ago and is the archetype of the successful Asian businessman.

他20年前来到这个国家，是成功亚裔商人的典范。

来自柯林斯例句

4. Odysseus is the archetype of the wanderer.

奥地修斯是长途漫游者的原型.

来自辞典例句

5. Jung Your individual shit is an archetype of the collective shit.

荣格:你的个体大便是集体大便的原型.

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