τόπος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tó.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈto.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈto.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈto.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈto.pos/
Noun
τόπος • (tópos) m (genitive τόπου); second declension
- place, location
- topic; (rhetoric) commonplace
- position, office
- opportunity, possibility
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ τόπος; τοῦ τόπου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ τόπος ho tópos | τὼ τόπω tṑ tópō | οἱ τόποι hoi tópoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τόπου toû tópou | τοῖν τόποιν toîn tópoin | τῶν τόπων tôn tópōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τόπῳ tôi tópōi | τοῖν τόποιν toîn tópoin | τοῖς τόποις toîs tópois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν τόπον tòn tópon | τὼ τόπω tṑ tópō | τοὺς τόπους toùs tópous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τόπε tópe | τόπω tópō | τόποι tópoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀτοπία (atopía)
- ἄτοπος (átopos)
- ἐκτοπίζω (ektopízō)
- ἐκτοπισμός (ektopismós)
- ἔκτοπος (éktopos)
- ἐντοπίζω (entopízō)
- ἐντόπιος (entópios)
- ἔντοπος (éntopos)
- τοπάζω (topázō)
- τοπίζω (topízō)
- τοπικός (topikós)
- τοπογραφέω (topographéō)
- τοπογραφία (topographía)
- τοπόγραφος (topógraphos)
- τοποθεσία (topothesía)
- τοπομαχέω (topomakhéō)
Descendants
- → Coptic: ⲧⲟⲡⲟⲥ (topos)
- → English: topos, topo-, -tope
- → German: Topos
- Greek: τόπος (tópos)
- Mariupol Greek: то́пус (tópus)
- → Latin: topia
References
- “τόπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τόπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τόπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G5117 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- destination idem, page 217.
- locality idem, page 497.
- place idem, page 616.
- quarter idem, page 663.
- region idem, page 687.
- scene idem, page 738.
- scenery idem, page 738.
- situation idem, page 780.
- spot idem, page 804.
- tract idem, page 885.
- zone idem, page 997.
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos). The mathematical sense, a semantic loan from New Latin locus.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈto.pos/
- Hyphenation: τό‧πος
Noun
τόπος • (tópos) m (plural τόποι)
- place, location, locality
- country
- native land
- home town
- space, room (occupied by something)
- soil, land
- (mathematics) locus (set of points)
Declension
declension of τόπος
| case \\ number | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | τόπος • | τόποι • |
| genitive | τόπου • | τόπων • |
| accusative | τόπο • | τόπους • |
| vocative | τόπε • | τόποι • |
Related terms
- αγριότοπος m (agriótopos, “wild country, wilderness”)
- τοποθεσία f (topothesía, “position, place”)
- τοποθετώ (topothetó, “to position”)
- κοινός τόπος m (koinós tópos, “commonplace”)
References
- τόπος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
Further reading
τόπος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el