German

Noun

Typus m ‎(genitive Typus, plural Typen)

1. type
2. character (theatrical)

Declension

Latin

Alternative forms

• typos classical
• typhus Medieval

Noun

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.

Declension

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (taxonomy): typicus

References

• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ty̆pus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “typus (typos)” on page 1,998/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “1. typus” on page 1,028/2 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)