toupie

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French toupie (“spinning top”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French topoie (“spinning top”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *topp (“spinning top”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“top, summit, peak”), so called because the toy spins on its tip, which is the top. Cognate with Old Dutch top, topp (“spinning top”) (Dutch top), West Frisian top (“spinning top”), Old English top (“spinning top”), Old High German topf (“spinning top”), French toupet (“toupee”) from the same Germanic source. More at top.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu.pi/

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Noun

toupie f (plural toupies)

1. (spinning) top

Further reading

• “toupie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• utopie

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Middle French

Noun

toupie f (plural toupies)

1. spinning top
   • 1607, Jacques Suarez de Sainte-Marie, Trésor Quadragésimal enrichi de plusieurs...considérations tant de l'Escriture Saincte que de la doctrine des Saincts Pères pour les sermons de tous les jours du Caresme, page 801

     Voyla une belle comparaison : un enfant prend une toupie qui est un morceau de bois sans vie & le fait tellement tourner qu il semble animé

     Here is a good comparison: a child takes a spinning top which is a lifeless piece of wood and makes it spin so much it seems to be alive