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English
Noun
topographie (usually uncountable, plural topographies)
- Obsolete spelling of topography.
1600, Titus Livius, “A Svmmarie Collected by Iohn Bartholmew Marlianus, A Gentleman of Millaine, Tovching the Topographie of Rome in Ancient Time”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie, page 1347: 1605, Robert Dallington, A Method For Trauell. Shewed by Taking the View of France As It ſtood in the Yeare of Our Lord 1598, page R2:Hauing now related of the Topographie and Policy of France, it remayneth I ſpeake ſomewhat of the Oeconomy, […]
1615, Nicholas Byfield, chapter 4, in An exposition upon the opistle to the Collosians, page 194:I will not trouble the Reader with the topographie of theſe townes, it is out of queſtion they were neere bordering cities.
French
Etymology
From Latin topographia, from Ancient Greek τοπογραφία (topographía), from τόπος (tópos, “place”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to write”). By surface analysis, topo- + -graphie.
Pronunciation
Noun
topographie f (plural topographies)
- topography
Verb
topographie
- inflection of topographier:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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