urtext

See also: Urtext and ur-text

English

From ur- +‎ text.

urtext (plural urtexts)

A primitive, seminal, or prototypical example of an artistic genre or the basis of an ideological movement.
- 2016 May 16, Johnathan Chait, “How Trump Has Revived the Republican Cult of Manliness”, in NYMag‎, retrieved December 1, 2017:
  The Weekly Standard ran an interminable series of essays lauding manliness and lamenting its demise at the hands of liberalism. Perhaps the Ur-text of this movement was a 2003 Jay Nordlinger op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.
(music, linguistics, anthropology) The original version of a piece of music or text, as created by the composer or writer.

original edition; manuscript

Japanese: 原典 (げんてん, genten), 原譜 (げんぷ, genpu), 原文 (ja) (げんぶん, genbun), 原本 (ja) (げんぽん, genpon)

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