typus
See also: Typus
Czech
Etymology
Latin typus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɪpus]
Noun
typus m
- Archaic form of typ.
Further reading
- typus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- typus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Latin
Alternative forms
- typos (classical)
- typhus (medieval)
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek τῠ́πος (túpos, “mark”, “impression”, “type”), from τῠ́πτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈty.pus/, [ˈt̪ʏpʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈti.pus/, [ˈt̪iːpus]
Noun
typus m (genitive typī); second declension
- figure, image
- bas-relief
- (surveying) ground-plan
- (Medieval Latin) a mystical figure or symbol, a prefiguration or portent
- type, form, sort, kind
- (New Latin, numismatics) a coin die
- (New Latin) a printing form or font die
- (singular only, collectively) literature, printed material, books
- (plural only, as typī, typōrum) a printing house, a printery
- Typis Archicœnobii Montis Casini
- from the Printing House of the Archabbey of Monte Cassino
- (New Latin, taxonomy, zoology) When it is the specific epithet of a binomial name, indicates it is the type species.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | typus | typī |
| Genitive | typī | typōrum |
| Dative | typō | typīs |
| Accusative | typum | typōs |
| Ablative | typō | typīs |
| Vocative | type | typī |
Synonyms
- (taxonomy): typicus
Descendants
- → Catalan: tipus
- → English: type
- → Japanese: タイプ
- → Korean: 타입 (taip)
- → French: type
- → Polish: typ
- → Romanian: tip
- → Turkish: tip
- → German: Typ
- → Hungarian: típus
- Italian: tipo
- → Portuguese: tipo
- Spanish: tipo
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever, stupor”).
Noun
typus m (genitive typī); second declension
- (medicine)Alternative spelling of typhus; a form, type, or character of a fever.
- (Medieval Latin) A periodic fever.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | typus | typī |
| Genitive | typī | typōrum |
| Dative | typō | typīs |
| Accusative | typum | typōs |
| Ablative | typō | typīs |
| Vocative | type | typī |
References
- “typus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “typus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- typus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ty̆pus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,618/3
- typus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 13.08.04) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- type in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- “typus (typos)” on page 1,998/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “1. typus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,028/2