— archetypal /ahr"ki tuy'peuhl/ , archetypical /ahr'ki tip"i keuhl/ , archetypic , adj. — archetypally, archetypically , adv.
/ahr"ki tuyp'/ , n.
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.
[ 1595-1605; archetypum an original archétypon a model, pattern (neut. of archétypos of the first mold, equiv. to arche- ARCHE- + týp ( os ) mold, TYPE + -os adj. suffix) ]