Archetypus, archétypi, pen. cor. Plin. iun.The sirst erample or paterne.Pocula archetypa. Martial. Decidere ab archetypo.Plin. iun.Not to follow: to falle.Archetypæ nugæ Martial.Labi ab archetypo.Plin. iun. Idem. Archetypi amici, per metaphoram, pro Veris & germanis. Martial.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
archĕtpus, a, um, adj., = a)rxe/tupos, that was first made, original (very rare): archetypos servare Cleanthas, i. e.
the original statues of Cleanthes
, Juv. 2, 7. So Martial calls the original MSS. of his epigrams, archetypae nugae, 7, 11, and in jest, friends that cost nothing, archetypi amici, 12, 69.—Hence, subst.: archĕt-pum, i, n., an original, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 8; so Plin. Ep. 5, 10; Macr. S. 7, 14.