exemplar

See also: Exemplar and exemplář

English

Etymology 1

From Old French exemplaire, from Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum. Doublet of exemplary.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɛɡˈzɛm.plə/, /ɪkˈzɛm.plə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɛɡˈzɛm.plɑɹ/, /ɪɡˈzɛm.plɚ/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ex‧em‧plar

Noun

exemplar (plural exemplars)

  1. Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a model.
  2. A role model.
  3. Something typical or representative of a class; an example.
  4. A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype.
  5. A well known usage of a scientific theory.
  6. A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
  7. A copy of a book or piece of writing.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Nicholas Udall to this entry?)
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Translations

Etymology 2

From French exemplaire, and its source, Latin exemplāris.

Adjective

exemplar (comparative more exemplar, superlative most exemplar)

  1. (obsolete) Exemplary.

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Catalan

Etymology

Latin exemplar

Noun

exemplar m (plural exemplars)

  1. copy; edition

Latin

Etymology

Compare of exemplāris.

Pronunciation

Noun

exemplar n (genitive exemplāris); third declension

  1. model, pattern, example, original or ideal
  2. copy

Inflection

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative exemplar exemplāria
Genitive exemplāris exemplārium
Dative exemplārī exemplāribus
Accusative exemplar exemplāria
Ablative exemplārī exemplāribus
Vocative exemplar exemplāria

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Descendants

References

  • exemplar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • exemplar in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • exemplar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • exemplar in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin exemplaris.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /i.ˈzẽ.plaɾ/
  • Hyphenation: e‧xem‧plar

Adjective

exemplar m or f (plural exemplares, comparable)

  1. exemplary

Noun

exemplar m (plural exemplares)

  1. example, exemplar

Swedish

Etymology

From Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

exemplar n

  1. a copy (one of many identical artifacts)

Declension

Declension of exemplar 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative exemplar exemplaret exemplar exemplaren
Genitive exemplars exemplarets exemplars exemplarens
  • exemplarframställning
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