Where does “prototypical” come from?
Prototypical comes from English prototype with the suffix -ic from French -ique, Latin -icus, and Proto-Indo-European -kos, with the proto- element from Proto-Indo-European pro-.
prototypical (English): Constituting or representing an original type of...
Definitions
- Constituting or representing an original type of...
Ancestry of “prototypical”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | prototype | An original form or object which is a basis for... |
| 2 | French | prototype | prototype |
| 3 | Latin | prōtotypus | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πρωτότυπος | original; prototype |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | πρωτο- | first, primary |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | πρῶτος | first; earliest; foremost, most prominent |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | πρό | before; before, in front, forth, forward; before,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pró | toward, leading to |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
Words derived from “prototypical”