topos

See also: Topos and tôpos

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”). Compare topic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɒpɒs/

Noun

topos (plural topoi or toposes)

1. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 239:

     The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.

2. (category theory) an elementary topos
3. (category theory) a Grothendieck topos
4. (Rugby School) a toilet

Related terms

• -topia
• topic

Translations

literary theme

• Czech: topos (cs) m or n
• Dutch: topos (nl) m or n
• German: Topos (de) m
• Hungarian: toposz (hu)
• Japanese: トポス (toposu)
• Spanish: tópico (es) m

mathematical structure

• Dutch: topos (nl) m or n
• French: topos (fr) m
• German: Topos (de) m
• Japanese: トポス (toposu)

Anagrams

• Spoto, poots, stoop

Asturian

Noun

topos

1. plural of topu

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoː.pɔs/

• Audio:

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Noun

topos m or n (plural topoi, diminutive toposje n)

1. topos, literary theme
2. topos, mathematical structure

Anagrams

• spoot

French

Noun

topos

1. plural of topo

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”).

Noun

topos m (plural topoi)

1. topos

Anagrams

• Spoto, posto

Portuguese

Noun

topos

1. plural of topo

Spanish

Noun

topos

1. plural of topo