exemplar

See also: Exemplar and exemplář

Contents

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old French exemplaire, from Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛɡˈzɛm.plə/, /ɪkˈzɛm.plə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛɡˈzɛm.plɑɹ/, /ɪɡˈzɛm.plɚ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

NounEdit

exemplar (plural exemplars)

1. Something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model.
2. A role model.
3. Something typical or representative of a class; see example.
4. A pattern after which others should be made; see 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 writing.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Udall to this entry?)

SynonymsEdit

• See also Wikisaurus:model
• See also Wikisaurus:exemplar

TranslationsEdit

something fit to be imitated

• Bulgarian: модел (bg) m (model), образец (bg) m (obrazec)
• Macedonian: пример m (prímer)

• Maori: tauira
• Romanian: model (ro) n

role model — see role model

something typical or representative of a class

• Bulgarian: образец (bg) m (obrazec), пример (bg) m (primer)
• Macedonian: примерок m (prímerok)

• Romanian: exemplar (ro) n

a handwritten manuscript

• Bulgarian: екземпляр (bg) m (ekzempljar)
• Esperanto: ekzemplero
• French: exemple (fr) f

• Macedonian: примерок m (prímer)
• Russian: экземпля́р (ru) (ekzempljár)

Etymology 2Edit

From French exemplaire, and its source, Latin exemplāris.

AdjectiveEdit

exemplar (comparative more exemplar, superlative most exemplar)

1. (obsolete) Exemplary.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821:
     , II.8:

     in our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare, than yours.

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Latin exemplar

NounEdit

exemplar m (plural exemplars)

1. copy; edition

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Neuter gender of exemplāris.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsem.plar/, [ɛkˈsɛm.pɫar]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsem.plar/

NounEdit

exemplar n (genitive exemplāris); third declension

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

InflectionEdit

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

SynonymsEdit

• (copy): exemplāris

Derived termsEdit

• exemplārium

Related termsEdit

• exemplum

DescendantsEdit

• Catalan: exemplar
• English: exemplar
• French: exemplaire
• German: Exemplar
• Russian: экземпля́р (ekzempljár)
• Portuguese: exemplar
• Spanish: ejemplar

ReferencesEdit

• 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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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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PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin exemplaris.

PronunciationEdit

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

AdjectiveEdit

exemplar m, f (plural exemplares, comparable)

1. exemplary

NounEdit

exemplar m (plural exemplares)

1. example, exemplar

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

from Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum.

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

NounEdit

exemplar n

1. a copy (one of many identical artifacts)

DeclensionEdit

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

Related termsEdit

• exemplarframställning