Prototype vs. Archetype

Prototypenoun

An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.

Prototypenoun

An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.

Prototypenoun

(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.

Prototypenoun

(semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.

Prototypeverb

(transitive) To create a prototype of.

Prototypenoun

An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.

Prototypenoun

a standard or typical example;

Prototype

A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process. It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and software programming.

Archetypenoun

An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.

Archetypenoun

An ideal example of something; a quintessence.

Archetypenoun

(literature) A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.

Archetypenoun

(psychology) According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.

Archetypenoun

(textual criticism) A original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive.

Archetypeverb

To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.

Archetypenoun

The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.

Archetypenoun

The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.

Archetypenoun

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

Archetypenoun

an original model on which something is patterned

Archetypenoun

a very typical example of a certain person or thing

Archetypenoun

an original which has been imitated; a prototype

Archetypenoun

(in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.

Archetypenoun

a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology

Archetype

The concept of an archetype (; from Greek: ἄρχω, árkhō, 'to begin' + τῠ́πος, túpos, 'sort, type') appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis. An archetype can be: a statement, pattern of behavior, prototype, form, or a main model that other statements, patterns of behavior, and objects copy, emulate, or into.