topos

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɒpɒs/

Noun

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 (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. (mathematics) A certain mathematical structure found in category theory.

Translations

literary theme

• Dutch: topos (nl) m and n
• German: Topos (de) m

• Japanese: トポス (ja) (toposu)

mathematical structure

• Dutch: topos (nl) m and n
• German: Topos (de) m

• Japanese: トポス (ja) (toposu)

Anagrams

• poots
• stoop

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtoː.pɔs/

Noun

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

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

Anagrams

• spoot

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Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

topos m (plural topoi)

1. topos

Anagrams

• posto, postò

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Portuguese

Noun

topos m

1. Plural form of topo