Home › Words › P › protopatternprotopatternprotopattern means an early or prototypical pattern.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, protopattern ranks #23,631 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyProto- + patternnounAn early or prototypical pattern.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).