The word archetype, "original pattern from which copies are made," first entered into English usage in the 1540s.[2] It derives from the Latin noun archetypum, latinization of the Greek noun ἀρχέτυπον (archétypon), whose adjective form is ἀρχέτυπος (archétypos), which means "first-molded",[3] which is a compound of ἀρχή archḗ, "beginning, origin",[4] and τύπος týpos, which can mean, among other things, "pattern", "model", or "type".[5] It, thus, referred to the beginning or origin of the pattern, model or type.[6]