prototypes

nounoriginal, example

Synonyms for prototypes

noun original, example

Antonyms for prototypes

descendant

Word Origin & History

c.1600, from French prototype (16c.) and directly from Medieval Latin prototypus "original, primitive," from Greek prototypon "a first or primitive form," noun use of neuter singular of prototypos "original, primitive," from protos "first" (see proto-) + typos "impression, mold, pattern" (see type (n.)). In English from 1590s as prototypon.

Example Sentences for prototypes

The prototypes of true Supporters, indeed, as they appear on Seals, are Badges.

These are the eternal forms or prototypes of individual things.

It cannot, however, be said that the author has reached the standard of his prototypes.

Wiltshire, Hampshire, and their prototypes have great reputations.

They were like their prototypes, the Pharisees and Sadducees of old.

Her family are, no doubt, prototypes of the Dodsons in the "Mill on the Floss."

We find the prototypes of the greybeards in the Cambio—Socrates, Pericles, and the rest.

All the characters are portraits—every body has seen their prototypes.

In Holland, Chinese prototypes had served as models for delft ware.

Indra and Rudra are regarded as the Aryan prototypes of Odin.