topo

Clipping of topographic map

topo (plural topos)

1. A topographic map.
2. (climbing) A map or sketch of a climbing route or area.

Clipping of topographic; compare bathy.

topo (not comparable)

1. Topographic.

• poot, opto-, OPTO, Toop

topo

1. be silent
2. to stop

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

topo

1. to puncture

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

topo anim

1. crash

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈto.pu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈto.po]

topo

1. first-person singular present indicative of topar

Clipping of topographie.

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.po/, /to.po/

topo m (plural topos)

1. sketch

   Synonyms: croquis, dessin, plan

2. (informal) rundown, short report, rough outline

   Synonyms: résumé de la situation, état des lieux

   faire un topo sur la situation ― to give a rundown of the situation

• “topo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

topo

1. first-person singular present indicative of topar

From Latin talpa (“mole”) with a change in gender. The original [ɫ] appears to have vocalized to [u̯] in pre-literary Tuscan,[1] with the resulting [au̯] regularly yielding [ɔ], as in Latin aurum (“gold”) > Italian òro. Doublet of talpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.po/

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• Rhymes: -ɔpo
• Hyphenation: tò‧po

topo m (plural topi, feminine topa, diminutive topìno or topolìno; (less common) topétto or topettìno, augmentative topóne or topolóne, pejorative topàccio)

1. mouse, rat

   Synonym: sorcio

2. (by extension) thief; person acting suspiciously or furtively

• Certain authorities including Umberto Eco, semiotician and author, insist that topo does not differentiate between “mouse” and “rat”:

  Aiuto, un topo! ― Help, a mouse/rat!

• Here topo is ambiguous — it refers to the impression somebody has when a mouse or rat comes along, that is when somebody panics because of seeing the animal.

• ratto m

• opto, opto-, optò, poto, potò

• IPA^(key): /topo/

topo

1. snake

   Hyponym: čəlaːŋ (“cobra”)

topo

1. an unknown-gender given name

• Kumar, Pramod (2012) Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa (PhD). Jawaharlal Nehru University. Page 43, 91, 133, 161, 313.

Borrowed from Old French top.

• tôpo (superseded)

• Rhymes: -opu
• Hyphenation: to‧po

topo m (plural topos)

1. top (uppermost part)

   Synonyms: ápice, auge, cimo, cume, pináculo, pínculo, sumidade, tope

   Antonym: fundo

2. apex (moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.)

   Synonyms: ápice, apogeu, auge

   Antonym: fundo do poço

• topo de linha

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔpu
• Hyphenation: to‧po

topo

1. first-person singular present indicative of topar

• IPA^(key): /ˈtopo/ [ˈt̪o.po]
• Rhymes: -opo
• Syllabification: to‧po

Inherited from Latin talpa. Cognate with English taupe.

topo m (plural topos)

1. mole (the animal)
2. mole (spy)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

topo

1. first-person singular present indicative of topar

• “topo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

topo

1. mouse

From Proto-North Halmahera *topok (“to pierce”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈto.po]

topo

1. (transitive) to stick into, to stab, pierce

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Western Oceanic *topo.

• IPA^(key): /topo/

topo

1. blood

• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪o.po/

topo

1. (stative) to be new

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics