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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : proh-tuh-tahyp |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈproʊ təˌtaɪp |
Definition of prototype
Origin :- c.1600, from French prototype (16c.) and directly from Medieval Latin prototypus "original, primitive," from Greek prototypon "a first or primitive form," noun use of neuter singular of prototypos "original, primitive," from protos "first" (see proto-) + typos "impression, mold, pattern" (see type (n.)). In English from 1590s as prototypon.
- noun original, example
- Who is this ancient teacher or who is his prototype if he is an ideal being?
- Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
- Prototype, when Agesilaus meditated the advance on Persia, just before his recall.
- Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
- Xenophon's own strategy in the Anabasis is probably the prototype.
- Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
- Prototype, a procession to Eleusis or elsewhere: the Panathenaic, possibly.
- Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
- It has served as a prototype of most ancient and modern books.
- Extract from : « Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome » by Apicius
- I wonder who my prototype may be: what would he say if I proposed to change coats with him?
- Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever
- Epimenides himself was reborn in Scotus, or rather, Epimenides was Scotus's prototype.
- Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
- Prototype: a primitive form to which later forms can be traced.
- Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith
- (c) Conventionalized lily—the prototype of the trident and the thunder-weapon.
- Extract from : « The Evolution of the Dragon » by G. Elliot Smith
- But the bird which was the prototype of the Winged Disk has been added.
- Extract from : « The Evolution of the Dragon » by G. Elliot Smith
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