urtext
English
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Etymology
Noun
urtext (plural urtexts)
- A primitive, seminal, or prototypical example of an artistic genre or the basis of an ideological movement.
- 2016 May 16, Johnathan Chait, “How Trump Has Revived the Republican Cult of Manliness”, in NYMag[1], retrieved December 1, 2017:
- The Weekly Standard ran an interminable series of essays lauding manliness and lamenting its demise at the hands of liberalism. Perhaps the Ur-text of this movement was a 2003 Jay Nordlinger op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.
- (music, linguistics, anthropology) The original version of a piece of music or text, as created by the composer or writer.
Synonyms
- (original version): original, manuscript