τόπος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Seemingly an inherited term, though the broad semantic range of the word makes ascertaining further origin and cognates difficult:[1]

Others (though surprisingly, not Beekes) have suggested Pre-Greek origin; note similarities to Albanian tokë (floor, earth) (compare darkë (supper, feast) vs. δόρπον (dórpon, supper, dinner; evening), bajgë (dung) vs. βολβός (bolbós, bulb), etc.), with a potential proto-form *tò-kʷV- or *tòw-kʷV-. See also Hittite 𒋼𒂊𒃷 (tēkan), [script needed] (tagnās). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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τόπος (tóposm (genitive τόπου); second declension

  1. place, location
  2. topic; (rhetoric) commonplace
  3. position, office
  4. opportunity, possibility

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τόπος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1494

Further reading

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Greek

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos). The mathematical sense, a semantic loan from New Latin locus.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈto.pos/
  • Hyphenation: τό‧πος

Noun

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τόπος (tóposm (plural τόποι)

  1. place, location, locality
    1. country
    2. native land
    3. home town
  2. space, room (occupied by something)
  3. soil, land
  4. (mathematics) locus (set of points)

Declension

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Derived terms

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for example:

References

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  1. ^ τόπος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

Further reading

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