archetypical vs prototypical

archetypical and prototypical both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
archetypical	No	Yes	No	No
prototypical	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, archetypical and prototypical are synonyms defined as:

archetypical and prototypical: representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned

Other synonyms of archetypical include archetypal, prototypal, prototypic.

archetypical (adjective)	prototypical (adjective)
representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned	representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned