1. tŏpĭa — Lewis & Short
tŏpĭa, ōrum, n. (sc. opera) [to/pos].
I Landscape painting, Vitr. 7, 5.—
II Ornamental gardening, fancy gardening, Spart. Had. 10 med.
The corpus record — Latin
topia
topia · n
Landscape painting
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Where it lives
- Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
- De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
- De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
What it meant
2. topia — Walde–Hofmann
topia, -örum (sc. opera), n. „Gartenanlage; Landschaftsmalerei* (seit Vitr, rom.; vgl topiärius, -@, -um „zur Kunstgürtnerei gehórig" seit Plin. nat., topiärius, -5 m. „Gärtner“ seit Cic., -a f. „Gärtnerei® seit Cie., -um n. „Kunstgartenwerk“ seit Plin, nat.): entl. aus {unbel.) -;-Ableit. von gr. tótoc wie tepica, -órum n. „Sammlung 44* 692 topper — torqueö. von Gemeinplützen*, Schrift des Aristoteles und Cic., aus … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. topia, p. 1599]
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. topia (scan p. 719; entry #11961).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. topia (scan pp. 1599-1602; entry #3047). Root candidates: *trep-, *terep-, *ter-.
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