# πρωτότυπος
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

πρωτο- (prōto-, “first”) +‎ τῠ́πτω (tŭ́ptō) +‎ -ος (-os, suffix forming second-declension compound adjectives)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /prɔː.tó.ty.pos/ → /proˈto.ty.pos/ → /proˈto.ti.pos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /prɔː.tó.ty.pos/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /proˈto.ty.pos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /proˈto.ty.pos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /proˈto.ty.pos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /proˈto.ti.pos/

### Adjective

πρωτότῠπος • (prōtótŭpos) m or f (neuter πρωτότῠπον); second declension (Koine)
* (chiefly grammar) original, primitive
** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 18.2.167
** 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Proll.Heph. 86
** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 62.15, (opposed to κτητικός):πρωτότυποι ἀντωνυμίαιprōtótupoi antōnumíai
** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Adverbs 166.5, (opposed to παράγωγος)
* archetypal
** 490 CE – 560 CE, Simplicius, On Aristotle's On the Heavens 277.4
** 458 CE – 538 CE, Damascius, Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles 340

#### Derived terms

* πρωτοτῠπέω (prōtotŭpéō, verb)
* πρωτοτῠπῐ́ᾱ f (prōtotŭpĭ́ā, noun)
* πρωτότῠπον n (prōtótŭpon, noun)
* πρωτότῠπος m (prōtótŭpos, noun)
* πρωτοτῠ́πως (prōtotŭ́pōs, adverb)

#### Descendants

* Greek: πρωτότυπος (protótypos)
* → Czech: prototyp
* → Danish: prototype
* → English: prototype
* → French: prototype
* → German: Prototyp
* → Hebrew: אַב־טִיפּוּס (av tipús) (calque)
* → Italian: prototipo
* → Macedonian: прототип (prototip)
* → Norwegian Bokmål: prototyp, prototype
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: prototyp, prototype
* → Polish: prototyp
* → Portuguese: protótipo
* → Russian: прототи́п (prototíp)
** → Kazakh: прототип (prototip)
* → Spanish: prototipo
* → Swedish: prototyp
** → Finnish: prototyyppi
* → Ukrainian: прототи́п (prototýp)

### Noun

πρωτότῠπος • (prōtótŭpos) m (genitive πρωτοτῠ́που); second declension
* (Byzantine) a principal party to a contract
** C.E. 6th century, Oxyrhynchus Papyri 136.11

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “πρωτότῠπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* πρωτότυπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “πρωτότυπος”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn

## Greek
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Koine Greek πρωτότυπος (prōtótupos), equivalent to πρωτό- (protó-, “first”) +‎ τύπος (týpos, “type, form”). Semantic loan from French original for which also see its synonym prototype.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾoˈto.ti.pos/
* Hyphenation: πρω‧τό‧τυ‧πος

### Adjective

πρωτότυπος • (protótypos) m (feminine πρωτότυπη, neuter πρωτότυπο)
* prototype
* original
    πρωτότυπες ιδέες ― protótypes idées ― original ideas

#### Declension

Derivations: Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο πρωτότυπος, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο πρωτότυπος, etc.)

#### Related terms

* πρωτοτυπία f (prototypía)
* πρωτοτυπικός (prototypikós, adjective)
* πρωτότυπο n (protótypo)
* πρωτοτυπώ (prototypó, verb)
* and see: πρώτος (prótos, “first”) and τύπος m (týpos, “type”)

### References

* ↑ πρωτότυπος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language