τύπος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τῠ́πτω (túptō, “I poke, beat”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tý.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈty.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈty.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈty.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.pos/
Noun
τῠ́πος • (túpos) m (genitive τῠ́που); second declension
- A blow, pressing
- The results of a blow: mark, impression
- mark, figure, image, outline
- General character of a thing: sort, type
- text, content
- pattern, example, model
- summoning
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ τῠ́πος; τοῦ τῠ́που (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τῠ́πος ho túpos | τὼ τῠ́πω tṑ túpō | οἱ τῠ́ποι hoi túpoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τῠ́που toû túpou | τοῖν τῠ́ποιν toîn túpoin | τῶν τῠ́πων tôn túpōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τῠ́πῳ tôi túpōi | τοῖν τῠ́ποιν toîn túpoin | τοῖς τῠ́ποις toîs túpois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τῠ́πον tòn túpon | τὼ τῠ́πω tṑ túpō | τοὺς τῠ́πους toùs túpous | ||||||||||
Vocative | τῠ́πε túpe | τῠ́πω túpō | τῠ́ποι túpoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τυπικός (tupikós)
Descendants
- → Aramaic: טופסא
- → Old Armenian: տիպ (tip)
- → Greek: τύπος (týpos)
- → Hebrew: טִיפּוּס (típus)
- → Latin: typus (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “τύπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τύπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τύπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G5179 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- adumbration idem, page 13.
- appearance idem, page 35.
- archetype idem, page 38.
- cast idem, page 116.
- character idem, page 125.
- contour idem, page 169.
- design idem, page 215.
- die idem, page 222.
- draft idem, page 249.
- fashion idem, page 308.
- feature idem, page 313.
- form idem, page 338.
- impress idem, page 423.
- impression idem, page 423.
- imprint idem, page 424.
- lineaments idem, page 493.
- mark idem, page 514.
- mould idem, page 543.
- outline idem, page 582.
- pattern idem, page 599.
- plan idem, page 617.
- print idem, page 641.
- rough idem, page 722.
- scheme idem, page 739.
- shape idem, page 762.
- stamp idem, page 810.
- symbol idem, page 850.
- type idem, page 904.
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).
The colloquial meaning of "guy, chap" is a semantic loan from French type. Sense "the press", semantic loan from French presse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈti.pos/
- Hyphenation: τύ‧πος
Noun
τύπος • (týpos) m (plural τύποι)
- sort, type, mould, stamp (of a person character)
- model, type (of car, etc)
- shape, form
- the press, the newspapers collectively
- formality, convention
- (chemistry, mathematics) formula
- (colloquial) a man, a guy, a chap
Declension
declension of τύπος
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | τύπος • | τύποι • |
genitive | τύπου • | τύπων • |
accusative | τύπο • | τύπους • |
vocative | τύπε • | τύποι • |
Derived terms
- ανάτυπο n (anátypo, “offprint”)
- ανατυπώνω (anatypóno, “to reprint”)
- ανατύπωση f (anatýposi, “impression”)
- έκτυπος (éktypos, “embossed”)
- συνέντευξη τύπου f (synéntefxi týpou, “press conference”)
- τυπικός (typikós, “formal”)
- τυπολάτρης m (typolátris, “formalist, ritualist”)
- τυπώνω (typóno, “to print”)
Further reading
- τύπος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.