exemplar

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛɡˈzɛm.plə/, /ɪkˈzɛm.plə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɛɡˈzɛm.plɑɹ/, /ɪɡˈzɛm.plɚ/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧em‧plar

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?)

• (something fit to be imitated): see also Thesaurus:model
• (something typical or representative of a class): see also Thesaurus:exemplar

From French exemplaire, and its source, Latin exemplāris.

exemplar (comparative more exemplar, superlative most exemplar)

1. (obsolete) Exemplary.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

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

• exemplar (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• exampler

Latin exemplar

exemplar m (plural exemplars)

1. copy; edition

Compare of exemplāris.

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

exemplar n (genitive exemplāris); third declension

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

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

• (copy): exemplāris

• exemplārium

• exemplum

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

• 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

From Latin exemplaris.

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

exemplar m or f (plural exemplares, comparable)

1. exemplary

exemplar m (plural exemplares)

1. example, exemplar

From Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum.

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exemplar n

1. a copy (one of many identical artifacts)

• exemplarframställning