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topos
- /ˈtoʊpɒs/
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”). Compare topic.
noun topoi · toposes
- A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula. 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.
- A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).
- A toilet.
Translations
Talk about this word "topos." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/topos. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. topos. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/topos "topos." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/topos.Cite this
@misc{topos_2026,
title = {topos},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/topos},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
