From Latin exemplar, from Latin exemplum.

• (RP) IPA: /ɛɡˈzɛm.plə/, /ɪkˈzɛm.plə/
• (America) IPA: /ɛɡˈzɛm.plɑɹ/, /ɪɡˈzɛm.plɚ/

exemplar (plural exemplars)

1. Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a model.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:model

2. A role model.
3. Something typical or representative of a class; an example that typifies.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:exemplar

4. A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype.
5. A well known usage of a scientific theory.
6. A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
7. A copy of a book or piece of writing.

• German: Vorbild, Vergleichstück
• Russian: образе́ц

• German: Urbild, Urgestalt
• Italian: esemplare, campione
• Russian: образе́ц

• French: exemple
• German: Urschrift
• Russian: экземпля́р

From French exemplaire, and its source, Latin exemplāris.

exemplar

1. (obsolete) Exemplary.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC ↗:

     In our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare, than yours.