English
topos
Topos comes from Ancient Greek τόπος ‘place’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτόποςtópos‘place’
- Englishearliest quotation 2003topos
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτόποςtópos‘place’
- Englishearliest quotation 2003topos
Earliest quotation: 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason: “The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic…”
Linked words
through Ancient Greek τόπος ‘place’
Today it means
noun A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek τόπος / topos