archetype
noun
[ ˈɑːkɪtʌɪp ]
• a very typical example of a certain person or thing.
• "he was the archetype of the old-style football club chairman"
• (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.
• a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology.
• "mythological archetypes of good and evil"
Origin:
mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon ‘something moulded first as a model’, from arkhe- ‘primitive’ + tupos ‘a model’.
