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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-) + τόπος (tópos, “place”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.to.pos/ → /ˈa.to.pos/ → /ˈa.to.pos/
Adjective
ἄτοπος • (átopos) m or f (neuter ἄτοπον); second declension
- unusual, out of place
- καὶ λοιπὴν τὴν ΔΖ μονάδα μετρήσει ὁ Η ἀριθμὸς ὤν ὄπερ ἄτοπον.
- So H will also measure the remainder, unit ΔΖ, despite being a number. This very thing is absurd.
Inflection
Derived terms
- ἀτοπία (atopía, “unusualness, extraordinariness”, literally “out-of-place-ness”)
References
- “ἄτοπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄτοπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄτοπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄτοπος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G824 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἄτοπος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- absurd idem, page 4.
- anomalous idem, page 31.
- curious idem, page 190.
- eccentric idem, page 260.
- extraordinary idem, page 297.
- fantastic idem, page 306.
- far-fetched idem, page 306.
- frivolous idem, page 346.
- funny idem, page 350.
- grotesque idem, page 375.
- incongruous idem, page 429.
- monstrous idem, page 539.
- nondescript idem, page 562.
- odd idem, page 569.
- outlandish idem, page 582.
- paradoxical idem, page 591.
- peculiar idem, page 601.
- preposterous idem, page 636.
- quaint idem, page 662.
- queer idem, page 664.
- ridiculous idem, page 713.
- singular idem, page 779.
- strange idem, page 823.
- uncouth idem, page 911.
- unheard idem, page 921.
- unusual idem, page 935.
- way idem, page 968.
- weird idem, page 973.
- whimsical idem, page 976.
- “atopite”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “ἄτοπος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011