topos

See also: Topos and tôpos

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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, 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) A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).

   Hyponyms: elementary topos, Grothendieck topos

3. (Rugby School, slang) A toilet.

Related terms

• -topia
• topic

Translations

literary theme

• Czech: topos (cs) m or n
• Dutch: topos (nl) m or n
• German: Topos (de) m
• Hungarian: toposz (hu)
• Japanese: トポス (toposu)
• Polish: topos (pl) m
• Spanish: tópico (es) m

mathematical structure

• Dutch: topos (nl) m or n
• French: topos (fr) m
• German: Topos (de) m
• Japanese: トポス (toposu)
• Polish: topos (pl) m

Anagrams

• Spoto, poots, stoop

Asturian

Noun

topos

1. plural of topu

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pɔs/, /ˈtoː.pɔs/

• Audio:

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Noun

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

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

Anagrams

• spoot

French

Noun

topos

1. plural of topo

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

topos m (plural topoi)

1. topos

Anagrams

• Spoto, posto

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pɔs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔpɔs
• Syllabification: to‧pos

Noun

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)

Declension

Declension of topos

	singular	plural
nominative	topos	toposy
genitive	toposu	toposów
dative	toposowi	toposom
accusative	topos	toposy
instrumental	toposem	toposami
locative	toposie	toposach
vocative	toposie	toposy

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pus/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pus/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.puʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pos/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.puʃ/

Noun

topos

1. plural of topo

Spanish

Noun

topos

1. plural of topo