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.
   • 2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4:

     A ray of light amid all this nonsense was Gwyn Topham's piece in the Guardian, which was timely, measured, accurate and of appropriate tone. That this single report stood out so clearly as an exemplar is a scathing comment in itself on the volumes of drivel surrounding it.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:model

2. A role model.
3. Something typical or representative of a class; an example that typifies.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:exemplar

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.
   • 1539, Richard Taverner, “Preface”, in Taverner's Bible:

     To amend the same [default] according to the true exemplars.

From French exemplaire, and its source, Latin exemplāris.

exemplar (comparative more exemplar, superlative most exemplar)

1. (obsolete) Exemplary.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] 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
• “exemplar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• exampler

Latin exemplar

exemplar m (plural exemplars)

1. copy; edition

Compare of exemplāris.

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

exemplar n (genitive exemplāris); third declension

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

Third-declension noun (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

Borrowed from Latin exemplāris.

• Hyphenation: e‧xem‧plar

exemplar m or f (plural exemplares)

1. exemplary

exemplar m (plural exemplares)

1. example, exemplar

From French exemplaire, from Latin exemplarium.

exemplar n (plural exemplare)

1. copy

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From Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum.

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exemplar n

1. a copy, a specimen (one of many identical artifacts)

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