τύπος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τῠ́πτω (tŭ́ptō, “I poke, beat”).^[1]

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 • (tŭ́pos) 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 tŭ́pos	τὼ τῠ́πω tṑ tŭ́pō	οἱ τῠ́ποι hoi tŭ́poi
Genitive	τοῦ τῠ́που toû tŭ́pou	τοῖν τῠ́ποιν toîn tŭ́poin	τῶν τῠ́πων tôn tŭ́pōn
Dative	τῷ τῠ́πῳ tōî tŭ́pōi	τοῖν τῠ́ποιν toîn tŭ́poin	τοῖς τῠ́ποις toîs tŭ́pois
Accusative	τὸν τῠ́πον tòn tŭ́pon	τὼ τῠ́πω tṑ tŭ́pō	τοὺς τῠ́πους toùs tŭ́pous
Vocative	τῠ́πε tŭ́pe	τῠ́πω tŭ́pō	τῠ́ποι tŭ́poi
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)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τύπτω (> DER A. τύπος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1518-9

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^[1], 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**
	singular	plural
nominative	τύπος (týpos)	τύποι (týpoi)
genitive	τύπου (týpou)	τύπων (týpon)
accusative	τύπο (týpo)	τύπους (týpous)
vocative	τύπε (týpe)	τύποι (týpoi)

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