typus

See also: Typus

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Latin typus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɪpus]

Noun

typus m inan

1. 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^(key): [ˈty.pʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪iː.pus]

Noun

typus m (genitive typī); second declension

1. figure, image
   1. bas-relief
   2. (surveying) ground-plan
   3. (Medieval Latin) a mystical figure or symbol, a prefiguration or portent
2. type, form, sort, kind
3. (New Latin, numismatics) a coin die
4. (New Latin) a printing form or font die
   1. (singular only, collectively) literature, printed material, books
   2. (plural only, as typī, typōrum) a printing house, a printery

      Typis Archicœnobii Montis Casini 

      from the Printing House of the Archabbey of Monte Cassino

5. (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.

	singular	plural
nominative	typus	typī
genitive	typī	typōrum
dative	typō	typīs
accusative	typum	typōs
ablative	typō	typīs
vocative	type	typī

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

1. (medicine) alternative spelling of typhus; a form, type, or character of a fever
   1. (Medieval Latin) A periodic fever.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	typus	typī
genitive	typī	typōrum
dative	typō	typīs
accusative	typum	typōs
ablative	typō	typīs
vocative	type	typī

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 (19 August 2025 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “type”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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