# typus
## Czech
### Etymology

Derived from Latin typus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɪpus]

### Noun

typus m inan
* Archaic form of typ.

#### Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

### Further reading

* “typus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “typus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* typos (Classical Latin)
* typhus (Medieval Latin)

### Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “mark”, “impression”, “type”), from τῠ́πτω (tŭ́ptō, “I strike, beat”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈty.pus/, [ˈt̪ʏpʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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.
    Synonym: typicus

##### Declension

Second-declension noun.

##### Related terms

* typicus (adjective)
* typoglypta m
* typoglypticus (adjective)
* typographēum n
* typographia f
* typographicē f
* typographicē (adverb)
* typographicus (adjective)
* typographium n
* typographius m
* typographum n
* typographus m
* typothēca f
* typothetēs m
* typothetēum n
* typotheticus (adjective)
* typothetum n
* typothȳmia f

##### Descendants

* → Catalan: tipus
* → English: type
** → Japanese: タイプ
** → Korean: 타입 (taip)
* → French: type
** → Polish: typ
** → Romanian: tip
** → Persian: تیپ (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.

### 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 (2025 January 2 (last accessed)) 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, →OCLC.
* “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