typus

• typos (classical)
• typhus (Medieval)

From Ancient Greek τῠ́πος (túpos, “mark”, “impression”, “type”), from τῠ́πτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈty.pus/, [ˈtʏ.pʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.pus/, [ˈtiː.pus]

typus m (genitive typī); second declension

1. figure, image
   1. bas-relief
   2. (surveying) ground-plan
   3. (Medieval Latin) a mystical figure or symbol, a prefiguration or portent
2. type, form, sort, kind
3. (medicine) form, type, or character of a fever
   1. (Medieval Latin) a periodic fever
4. (New Latin, numismatics) a coin die
5. (New Latin) a printing form or font die
   1. (singular only, collectively) literature, printed material, books
   2. (plural only, as typī, typōrum) a printing house, a printery

      Typis Archicœnobii Montis Casini 

      from the Printing House of the Archabbey of Monte Cassino

6. (New Latin, taxonomy, zoology) When it is the specific epithet of a binomial name, indicates it is the type species.

Second declension.

• (taxonomy): typicus

• typus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• typus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• typus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ty̆pus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,618/3
• typus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 13.08.04) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• type in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “typus (typos)” on page 1,998/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “1. typus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1,028/2