/
ˈɑːkɪtʌɪp/
n.
- a very typical example.
- an original model.
- Psychoanalysis (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.
- a recurrent motif in literature or art.
Derivative
- archetypal adj.
- archetypally adv.
- archetypical adj.
- archetypically adv.
Etymology
C16: via L. from Gk arkhetupon ‘something moulded first as a model’, from arkhe- ‘primitive’ + tupos ‘a model’.
