See also: Exemplar and exemplář

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Etymology 1 edit

From Latin exemplar, from Latin exemplum. Doublet of exemplary.

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exemplar (plural exemplars)

  1. Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a model.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:model
    • 2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4:
      A ray of light amid all this nonsense was Gwyn Topham's piece in the Guardian, which was timely, measured, accurate and of appropriate tone. That this single report stood out so clearly as an exemplar is a scathing comment in itself on the volumes of drivel surrounding it.
  2. A role model.
  3. Something typical or representative of a class; an example that typifies.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:exemplar
  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.
    • 1539, Richard Taverner, “Preface”, in Taverner's Bible:
      To amend the same [default] according to the true exemplars.
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Etymology 2 edit

From French exemplaire, and its source, Latin exemplāris. By surface analysis, example +‎ -ar.

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exemplar (comparative more exemplar, superlative most exemplar)

  1. (obsolete) Exemplary.

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Borrowed from Latin exemplāris.

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exemplar m or f (masculine and feminine plural exemplars)

  1. exemplary

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Latin exemplar.

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exemplar m (plural exemplars)

  1. copy; edition

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Compare of exemplāris.

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exemplar n (genitive exemplāris); third declension

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

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Third-declension noun (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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  • 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[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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From Latin exemplar.

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exemplar m (feminine singular exemplara, masculine plural exemplars, feminine plural exemplaras)

  1. exemplary

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exemplar m (plural exemplars)

  1. copy, specimen, example

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Borrowed from Latin exemplāris.

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  • Hyphenation: e‧xem‧plar

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exemplar m or f (plural exemplares)

  1. exemplary

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exemplar m (plural exemplares)

  1. example, exemplar

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  • exemplar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

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Borrowed from French exemplaire, from Latin exemplarium.

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exemplar n (plural exemplare)

  1. copy

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From Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum.

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exemplar n

  1. a copy, a specimen (one of many identical artifacts)

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

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