-typesuffix

Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element.

1. Representing French -type, Latin -typus, Greek -τυπος, < root of τύπτειν to beat, strike: cf. type n. The termination -τυπος was used in Greek to form adjectives, in sense ‘struck, driven, moulded’, as ἀντίτυπος repelled, reflected (also in active sense ‘repelling’), ἀρχέτυπος first-moulded, πρωτότυπος original, primitive (also used absol. as nouns). These have been anglicized as nouns, antitype, archetype, prototype; and many technical words connected with printing and other modern processes of copying have been formed on the model of them, with the sense ‘type, block, or plate for printing from’, as in electrotype, logotype, phonotype, stereotype; ‘impression or picture’, also ‘process of reproduction’, as in autotype, calotype, chrysotype, collotype, cyanotype, ferrotype, phototype, platinotype, etc.; also in hybrid formations on English words, as colourtype.

2. [type n.] Appended to adjectives and nouns or noun phrases forming adjectives with the sense ‘of the specified type; typical or characteristic of (..), reminiscent or imitative of (..)’. Cf. type n. 6.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Jan. 2/1 All naval Powers have provided their ships with..new-type guns.

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 97/2 Australian... Claret type..Burgundy type.

1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 911/2 The three-phase shell-type transformer is a development of the single phase, having three individual sets of coils and the three cores arranged to form one composite core.

1924 Sat. Evening Post 13 Sept. 80 (advt.) Has the car you have in mind a European type, high compression motor?

1936 Discovery Aug. 237/2 Eight astronomical-type stainless steel mirrors.

1939 War Illustr. 29 Dec. 522/2 The submarine had not long been in her patrol area before she sighted a big-type U-boat.

1940 Illustr. London News 28 Dec. 821 The outbreak of the war found the Fleet Air Arm using for the most part adapted land~type machines.

1949 Here & Now (N.Z.) Oct. 23/3 Following the old Spanish custom still prevalent at California-type barbecues, the meat can be served with some version of hot, tangy tomato sauce.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 693/2 The indulines and nigrosines are important azine type dyes.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 Mar. 77/1 He showed slides of some of his farm-made, ‘home~grown’ Dutch-barn-type buildings which he believed in putting up.

1970 Daily Tel. 18 Aug. 11 Ocean Spirit is the biggest-type glass fibre boat ever made in this country.

1973 New Statesman 19 Oct. 557/3 Fifties-type social realist films.

1976 Derbyshire Times (Peak ed.) 3 Sept. 15/1 (advt.) A very spacious older type house.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	-type
释义	-typesuffix Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element. 1. Representing French -type, Latin -typus, Greek -τυπος, < root of τύπτειν to beat, strike: cf. type n. The termination -τυπος was used in Greek to form adjectives, in sense ‘struck, driven, moulded’, as ἀντίτυπος repelled, reflected (also in active sense ‘repelling’), ἀρχέτυπος first-moulded, πρωτότυπος original, primitive (also used absol. as nouns). These have been anglicized as nouns, antitype, archetype, prototype; and many technical words connected with printing and other modern processes of copying have been formed on the model of them, with the sense ‘type, block, or plate for printing from’, as in electrotype, logotype, phonotype, stereotype; ‘impression or picture’, also ‘process of reproduction’, as in autotype, calotype, chrysotype, collotype, cyanotype, ferrotype, phototype, platinotype, etc.; also in hybrid formations on English words, as colourtype. 2. [type n.] Appended to adjectives and nouns or noun phrases forming adjectives with the sense ‘of the specified type; typical or characteristic of (..), reminiscent or imitative of (..)’. Cf. type n. 6. Π 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Jan. 2/1 All naval Powers have provided their ships with..new-type guns. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 97/2 Australian... Claret type..Burgundy type. 1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 911/2 The three-phase shell-type transformer is a development of the single phase, having three individual sets of coils and the three cores arranged to form one composite core. 1924 Sat. Evening Post 13 Sept. 80 (advt.) Has the car you have in mind a European type, high compression motor? 1936 Discovery Aug. 237/2 Eight astronomical-type stainless steel mirrors. 1939 War Illustr. 29 Dec. 522/2 The submarine had not long been in her patrol area before she sighted a big-type U-boat. 1940 Illustr. London News 28 Dec. 821 The outbreak of the war found the Fleet Air Arm using for the most part adapted land~type machines. 1949 Here & Now (N.Z.) Oct. 23/3 Following the old Spanish custom still prevalent at California-type barbecues, the meat can be served with some version of hot, tangy tomato sauce. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 693/2 The indulines and nigrosines are important azine type dyes. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 Mar. 77/1 He showed slides of some of his farm-made, ‘home~grown’ Dutch-barn-type buildings which he believed in putting up. 1970 Daily Tel. 18 Aug. 11 Ocean Spirit is the biggest-type glass fibre boat ever made in this country. 1973 New Statesman 19 Oct. 557/3 Fifties-type social realist films. 1976 Derbyshire Times (Peak ed.) 3 Sept. 15/1 (advt.) A very spacious older type house. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < suffix1887
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