Definitions
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Word origin
From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek πρωτότυπος (prōtótupos, “original; prototype”), from πρωτο- (prōto-, “first”) (from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- + -type.
Used in a sentence
“Near-synonym: archetype (sometimes synonymous)”
“Only one manuscript of Plautus seems to have escaped the general wreck of ancient literature; and it served as the prototype to all the manuscripts at present extant.”
“The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“First working model”9 letters
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