topographia

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τοπογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (topogrăphĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: top‧o‧graph‧i‧a

Noun

topographia (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) Description of a place.

   Hypernym: enargia

Further reading

• Gideon O. Burton (26 February 2007), “topographia”, in Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric‎^[1].

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.pɔ.ɡʁa.fja/

• Rhymes: -a
• Homophones: topographias, topographiât
• Hyphenation: to‧po‧gra‧phia

Verb

topographia

1. third-person singular past historic of topographier

See also

• topographie

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τοπογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (topogrăphĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

• topographia:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɔ.pɔˈɡra.pʰi.a]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [to.poˈɡraː.fi.a]
  • Hyphenation: to‧po‧gra‧phi‧a
• topographiā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɔ.pɔˈɡra.pʰi.aː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [to.poˈɡraː.fi.a]
  • Hyphenation: to‧po‧gra‧phi‧ā

Noun

topographia f (genitive topographiae); first declension

2. topography (study of the forms of land surfaces)

   Hypernym: geōgraphia

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	topographia	topographiae
genitive	topographiae	topographiārum
dative	topographiae	topographiīs
accusative	topographiam	topographiās
ablative	topographiā	topographiīs
vocative	topographia	topographiae

Descendants

• → Middle English: topographye (learned)
  • > English: topography (inherited)

Further reading

• topographia in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3149
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “topographia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “tŏpŏgrăphĭa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1582.
• Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “topographia”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎^[3], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC