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archetypally

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ar⋅che⋅type

  [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.
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Origin:
1595–1605; < L archetypum an original < Gk archétypon a model, pattern (neut. of archétypos of the first mold, equiv. to arche- arche- + týp(os) mold, type + -os adj. suffix)

Related forms:
ar⋅che⋅typ⋅al  [ahr-ki-tahy-puhl] , ar⋅che⋅typ⋅i⋅cal  [ahr-ki-tip-i-kuhl] , ar⋅che⋅typ⋅ic, adjective
ar⋅che⋅typ⋅al⋅ly, ar⋅che⋅typ⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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Cultural Dictionary

archetype [(ahr-ki-teyep)]

An original model after which other similar things are patterned. In the psychology of Carl Jung, archetypes are the images, patterns, and symbols that rise out of the collective unconscious and appear in dreams, mythology, and fairy tales.

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Word Origin & History

archetype 
"original pattern from which copies are made," 1545, from L. archetypum, from Gk. arkhetypon "pattern, model," neut. of adj. arkhetypos "first-moulded," from arkhe- "first" (see archon) + typos "model, type, blow, mark of a blow." Jungian psychology sense of "pervasive idea or image from the collective unconscious" is from 1919.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: ar·che·type
Pronunciation: 'är-ki-"tIp
Function: noun
1 a : a primitive generalized plan of structure deduced from thecharacters of a natural group of plants or animals and assumed to be the characteristic of the ancestor from which they are all descended b : the original ancestor of a group of plantsor animals
2 : an inherited idea or mode of thought in the psychology of C. G. Jung that is derived from the experience of the race and is present in the unconscious of theindividual —ar·che·typ·al /"är-ki-'tI-p&l/ adjective
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archetype ar·che·type (är'kĭ-tīp')
n.

  1. An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned.

  2. In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic image that is derived from the past collective experience of humanity and is present in the unconscious of the individual. Also called imago.

ar'che·typ'al (-tī'pəl) or ar'che·typ'ic (-tĭp'ĭk) or ar'che·typ'i·cal adj.
ar'che·typ'i·cal·ly adv.

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