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Top Word Subject Topos Greek Place Topic Original

word TOP
meaning TOP comes from topos, the Greek word for “place.” A topic is a subject rather than a place; to the Greeks, the original word meant more or less “about one place or subject (rather than another)”—which just goes to show that it's not always easy to trace a word's meaning from its roots.

Tags: mwvb::root, mwvb::unit:16, mwvb::unit:16:root, obsidian_to_anki

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