-topiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-topia

1. Place; position; location; geographic region.
2. Paradise.
   • 2014, Steve Rose, "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review", The Guardian, 1 July 2014:

     They haven't seen humans for years, so when a small expedition, led by Jason Clarke, stumbles into apetopia, both sides are taken aback.

同意語

• -topy

派生語

名詞

topia

1. (historical) A kind of mural decoration common in Ancient Roman houses, usually featuring landscapes.

関連する語

• topiary

語源 2

From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía), by analogy with utopia. Compare also French topie.

名詞

topia (複数形 topias)

1. (postmodern philosophy) The lived physical place, in opposition to the ideal of a utopia.

   Coordinate terms: utopia, heterotopia

アナグラム

• patio, taipo

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek τόπια (tópia, “artistic representation in which natural または artificial features of a place are used as the medium”), plural of Ancient Greek τόπιον (tópion, “field, landscape”), from τόπος (tópos, “place”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.pi.a/, [ˈt̪ɔpiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.pi.a/, [ˈt̪ɔːpiä]

名詞

topia n pl (genitive topiōrum); second declension

1. ornamental gardening, landscape painting

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

参照

• “topia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• topia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette