ECTYPE

Definitions: ECTYPE

ECTYPE

Noun

1. A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed.

2. A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).

3. A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence:

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ECTYPE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Etymology: Ectype \Ec"type\, noun. [Compare to the French expression ectype. See Ectypal.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Copy	Image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, photo offset, electrotype; imitation; model, representation, adumbration, study; portrait; (representation); resemblance.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Language		Translations for "ectype"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		ectypeay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ECTYPE": ectypes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"ECTYPE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ectyp. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "ECTYPE" (pronounced 'Ec"type'): Tintype. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-p-t-y"
	-2 letters: cepe, cete, tyee, type.
	-3 letters: cee, cep, eye, pec, pee, pet, pye, tee, tye, yep, yet.
	-4 letters: et, pe, ye.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-p-t-y"
	+1 letter: ecotype, ectypes.
	+2 letters: cerotype, clypeate, ecotypes, typecase, typeface.
	+3 letters: appetency, archetype, cerotypes, decrypted, encrypted, lectotype, pachytene, perfectly, typecases, typefaces.
	+4 letters: acceptedly, archetypes, competency, completely, copyedited, decrepitly, expectably, expectancy, expectedly, hepatocyte, hyperacute, hypocenter, lectotypes, pachytenes, pernickety, pertinency, polychaete, preceptory, precertify, prepotency, pycnometer.
	+5 letters: chamaephyte, competently, cyproterone, deceptively, deprecatory, electrotype, epidemicity, eucalyptole, expectantly, hepatectomy, hepatocytes, heterotypic, hyperactive, hypermetric, hypocenters, hypothecate, imperfectly, inceptively, nephrectomy, perceptibly, persecutory, persistency, persnickety, phycomycete, polychaetes, polygenetic, presciently, pycnometers, receptively, receptivity, respectably, splenectomy, stereoscopy, stereotypic.
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