The first element ‘arche’ signifies ‘beginning, origin, cause, primal source and principle,’ but it also signifies ‘position of a leader, supreme rule and government’ (in other words a kind of ‘dominant’); the second element ‘type’ means ‘blow and what is produced by a blow, the imprint of a coin … form, image, copy, prototype, model, order, and norm’ … in the figurative, modern sense, ‘pattern, underlying form, primordial form’ (the form for example ‘underlying’ a number of similar human, animal or vegetable specimens). (Schmitt, quoted by Jacobi 1959: 48–49)
