Ancient Greek edit

Etymology edit

Pre-Greek substrate, close to Albanian tokë (floor, earth) (cf. darkë vs. δόρπον (dórpon, supper, dinner; evening), bajgë vs. βολβός (bolbós, bulb) etc.), with a proto-form *tò-kʷV- or *tòw-kʷV-. Close to Hittite 𒋼𒂊𒃷 (tēkan), [script needed] (tagnās).

Pronunciation edit

 

Noun edit

τόπος (tóposm (genitive τόπου); second declension

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

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Greek edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

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)

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References edit

  1. ^ τόποςΛεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.

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