topos

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊpɒs/

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.

• -topia
• topic

• Spoto, poots, stoop

topos

1. plural of topu

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pɔs/, /ˈtoː.pɔs/

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

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

• spoot

topos

1. plural of topo

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

topos m (plural topoi)

1. topos

• Spoto, posto

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pɔs/

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• Rhymes: -ɔpɔs
• Syllabification: to‧pos

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)

• “topos”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)
• topos in PWN's encyclopedia

topos

1. plural of topo

topos

1. plural of topo