τύπος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τῠ́πτω (túptō, “I poke, beat”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tý.pos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈty.pos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈty.pos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈty.pos/
(15^th 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
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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
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.

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