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Feb 28, 2013 This week's theme Words made with combining forms This week's words logophile homologous hagiarchy archetype dactylography Roll the dice Get a random word from A.Word.A.Day archives Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg archetype PRONUNCIATION: (AHR-ki-typ) MEANING: noun: 1. The original pattern or model of something; prototype. 2. An ideal or typical example of something. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek arche- (first, original) + -type (model, mold). Earliest documented use: 1605. USAGE: "Madonna has been the icon and archetype to the current crop of pop princesses." Scott Mervis; For the Record: Madonna and Lionel Ritchie; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Mar 29, 2012. Explore "archetype" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)

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