antetype

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antetype (plural antetypes)

  1. An archetype or prototype; something serving as a model for what comes later.
    • 1889, Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences and Analytical Index, page 10:
      The latter is the matrix or mould which serves as the antetype of the mature product, and the same can also be said of interstitial bones.