one of the inherited mental images postulated by Jung as the content of the collective unconscious
4.
a constantly recurring symbol or motif in literature, painting, etc
Word origin
C17: from Latin archetypum an original, from Greek arkhetupon, from arkhetupos first-moulded; see arch-, type
Examples of 'architype' in a sentence
architype
Open-source technologies were adopted to implement a proof-of-concept architype of the architecture.
Emmanuel Adetiba, Victor O. Matthews, Samuel N. John, Segun I. Popoola, AbdultaofeekAbayomi 2018, 'NomadicBTS: Evolving cellular communication networks with software-defined radio architectureand open-source technologies', Cogent Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311916.2018.1507465. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)