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From Latin exemplar, from Latin exemplum (“example”). Doublet of exemplary.

exemplar (plural exemplars)

  2. Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a worthy model or role model: a desirable example.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus: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.

  4. Something typical or representative; an example that typifies its class.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:exemplar
  6. A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype.
  8. A well-known use of a scientific theory.
  10. A manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original document to be reproduced in a copy machine.
  12. 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.

something fit to be imitated

From French exemplaire, and its source, Latin exemplāris. By surface analysis, example +‎ -ar.

exemplar (comparative more exemplar, superlative most exemplar)

  1. (obsolete) Exemplary.

Borrowed from Latin exemplāris.

exemplar m or f (masculine and feminine plural exemplars)

  1. exemplary

Borrowed from Latin exemplar.

exemplar m (plural exemplars)

  1. copy; edition

Substantivation of apocopated exemplāre, nominative neuter singular of exemplāris (“exemplary”) or directly from exemplum +‎ -ar.

exemplar n (genitive exemplāris); third declension

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

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

  • “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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Latin exemplar.

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exemplar m (feminine singular exemplara, masculine plural exemplars, feminine plural exemplaras)

  1. exemplary

exemplar m (plural exemplars)

  1. copy, specimen, example

Borrowed from Latin exemplāris.

  • Hyphenation: e‧xem‧plar

exemplar m or f (plural exemplares)

  1. exemplary

exemplar m (plural exemplares)

  1. example, exemplar

Borrowed from French exemplaire, from Latin exemplarium.

exemplar n (plural exemplare)

  1. copy

From Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum.

exemplar n

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