exemplar

From Latin exemplar, from Latin exemplum. Doublet of exemplary.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛɡˈzɛm.plə/, /ɪkˈzɛm.plə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɛɡˈzɛm.plɑɹ/, /ɪɡˈzɛm.plɚ/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧em‧plar

exemplar (plural exemplars)

1. Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a model.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:model

   • 2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4:

     A ray of light amid all this nonsense was Gwyn Topham's piece in the Guardian, which was timely, measured, accurate and of appropriate tone. That this single report stood out so clearly as an exemplar is a scathing comment in itself on the volumes of drivel surrounding it.

2. A role model.
3. Something typical or representative of a class; an example that typifies.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:exemplar

4. A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype.
5. A well known usage of a scientific theory.
6. A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
7. A copy of a book or piece of writing.
   • 1539, Richard Taverner, “Preface”, in Taverner's Bible:

     To amend the same [default] according to the true exemplars.

From French exemplaire, and its source, Latin exemplāris. By surface analysis, example +‎ -ar.

exemplar (comparative more exemplar, superlative most exemplar)

1. (obsolete) Exemplary.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     In our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare, than yours.

• exemplar (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “exemplar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• exampler

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əɡ.zəmˈplar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əɡ.zəmˈpla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [eɡ.zemˈplaɾ]

Borrowed from Latin exemplāris.

exemplar m or f (masculine and feminine plural exemplars)

1. exemplary

Borrowed from Latin exemplar.

exemplar m (plural exemplars)

1. copy; edition

• “exemplar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “exemplar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “exemplar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “exemplar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Compare of exemplāris.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsem.plar/, [ɛkˈs̠ɛmpɫ̪är]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsem.plar/, [eɡˈzɛmplär]

exemplar n (genitive exemplāris); third declension

1. model, pattern, example, original or ideal
2. copy

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• (copy): exemplāris

• exemplārium

• exemplum

• → Catalan: exemplar (learned)
• → English: exemplar
• → French: exemplaire (learned)
• → German: Exemplar
• → Middle Irish: eisimpláir
  • Irish: eiseamláir
• → Portuguese: exemplar (learned)
• → Russian: экземпля́р (ekzempljár)
• → Spanish: ejemplar (learned)

• “exemplar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exemplar”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exemplar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• exemplar in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• exemplari (Provençal)

From Latin exemplar.

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exemplar m (feminine singular exemplara, masculine plural exemplars, feminine plural exemplaras)

1. exemplary

exemplar m (plural exemplars)

1. copy, specimen, example

Borrowed from Latin exemplāris.

• Hyphenation: e‧xem‧plar

exemplar m or f (plural exemplares)

1. exemplary

exemplar m (plural exemplares)

1. example, exemplar

• “exemplar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Borrowed from French exemplaire, from Latin exemplarium.

• IPA^(key): /ek.semˈplar/

exemplar n (plural exemplare)

1. copy

• exemplar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• ex

From Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum.

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exemplar n

1. a copy, a specimen (one of many identical artifacts)

• exemplarframställning