German

Noun

Topos m, n ‎(genitive Topos, plural Topoi)

1. topos (literary theme or motif)

English

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 (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 Cartesian closed category which has a subobject classifier.

Related terms

• -topia
• topic

Translations

Anagrams

• poots
• stoop

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoː.pɔs/

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

Anagrams

• spoot

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

topos m ‎(plural topoi)

1. topos

Anagrams

• posto, postò

Portuguese

Noun

topos

1. plural of topo

Spanish

Noun

topos

1. plural of topo