Etymograph

English

topology

Topology comes from Late Latin topologia.

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEtopologia
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2016topology

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEtopologia
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2016topology

Earliest quotation: 2016, Ehud Hrushovski, François Loeser: “It is easy to verify that the topology generated…”

Equivalent to topo- ‘place’ + -logy ‘study of, a branch of knowledge’

Ancient Greek τόπος ‘place’

English topo-

Every English word from Late Latin topologia

Today it means

noun The branch of mathematics dealing with those properties of a geometrical object (of arbitrary dimensionality) that are unchanged by continuous deformations (such as stretching, bending, etc., without tearing or gluing).

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Etymograph / Late Latin topologia / topology

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