topos

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topos

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɒpɒs/

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

• -topia
• topic

• Spoto, poots, stoop

topos

1. plural of topu

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pɔs/, /ˈtoː.pɔs/

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

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

• spoot

topos

1. plural of topo

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

topos m (plural topoi)

1. topos

• Spoto, posto

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

topos

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pɔs/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔpɔs
• Syllabification: to‧pos

topos m inan

1. (literature, rhetoric) topos (literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula)

   Synonyms: archetyp, motyw, wątek

2. topos (element of some culture; a basis for reasoning; a generally accepted judgment)
3. (category theory) topos, elementary topos (Cartesian closed category which has a subobject classifier)

• topos in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• topos in PWN's encyclopedia

topos

1. plural of topo

topos

1. plural of topo