Exemplar vs Exemplum - What's the difference?
exemplar | exemplum |
Something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model.
A role model.
Something typical or representative of a class; see example.
A pattern after which others should be made; see archetype.
A well known usage of a scientific theory.
A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
A copy of a book or writing.
(obsolete) Exemplary.
*, II.8:
*:in our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare , than yours.
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An example.
A story demonstrating a moral point.
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 90:
*:In the Middle Ages preachers had enlivened their sermons with exempla – edifying tales of judgements upon sinners and mercies shown to the pious.
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Exemplum is a related term of exemplar.
Exemplum is a derived term of exemplar.
As nouns the difference between exemplar and exemplum
is that exemplar is something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model while exemplum is an example.As an adjective exemplar
is exemplary.exemplar
English
(wikipedia exemplar)Etymology 1
From (etyl) exemplaire, from exemplarium, from (etyl) exemplum.Noun
(en noun)- (Udall)