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Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἄτοπος (átopos, “out-of-place”) + -ία (-ía, “-ness”)
Noun
ἀτοπία • (atopía)
- extraordinariness, uncommonness
References
- “ἀτοπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀτοπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀτοπία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀτοπία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- absurdity idem, page 4.
- anomalousness idem, page 31.
- eccentricity idem, page 260.
- extraordinariness idem, page 297.
- extravagance idem, page 297.
- grotesqueness idem, page 375.
- incongruity idem, page 429.
- ludicrousness idem, page 504.
- nonsense idem, page 562.
- oddity idem, page 569.
- peculiarity idem, page 601.
- preposterousness idem, page 636.
- quaintness idem, page 662.
- queerness idem, page 664.
- ridiculousness idem, page 714.
- singularity idem, page 779.
- strangeness idem, page 823.
- uncouthness idem, page 911.
- whimsicality idem, page 976.