typetype

Type comes from Middle English type ‘symbol, figure, emblem’, from Ancient Greek τύπος ‘mark, impression, type’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- ‘to push, beat’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)tewp-¹‘to push’reconstructed
2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτύπτω²túptō‘to strike’
3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτύπος²túpos‘mark’
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtypus²
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500type²‘symbol’
6. Englishearliest quotation 1847type²

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Ancient Greek τύπτω
2. ² Wiktionary, English type
3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, (please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII: “Let us type them now in our own lives.”.