archĕtypus, a, um, adj., = ἀρχέτυπος,
that was first made , original (very rare): archetypos servare Cleanthas, i. e. the original statues of Cleanthes , Juv. 2, 7. So Martial calls the original MSS. of his epigrams, archetypae nugae, 7, 11, and in jest, friends that cost nothing, archetypi amici, 12, 69.—Hence, subst.: archĕty-pum , i, n., an original , Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 8; so Plin. Ep. 5, 10; Macr. S. 7, 14.