tópos

tóp--os Vorlage:agrie. τόπος ‘Ort, Stelle, Gegend, Land’,

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

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• IPA^(key): /tó.pos/ → /ˈto.pos/ → /ˈto.pos/

Noun

τόπος • (tópos) m (genitive τόπου); second declension

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