archetypal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned

   archetypal patterns

2. 2
   adj

   Of or pertaining to an archetype.

   In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.

Etymology

From archetype + -al.