The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλέκτος“chosen”
- English todaylectotype
From Ancient Greek λέκτος (léktos, “chosen”), from λέγειν (légein, “to choose”) + τύπος (túpos, “blow, impression”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
lectotype
Today it means: A biological specimen or illustration later selected to serve as definitive type example of a species or subspecies when the original author of the name did not designate a holotype. Full definition →
Ancient Greek λέκτος