Masculine
topo
Meaning
- (masculine) mouse, rat
- (broadly, masculine) thief; person acting suspiciously or furtively
- (masculine, rare) computer mouse
Concepts
Translations
souris
rato
Maus
ratón
mus
muis
ratolí
fare
ποντίκι
mişkFrequency
Hyphenated as
tò‧po
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɔ.po/
Etymology
From Latin talpa (“mole”) with a change in gender. The original [ɫ] appears to have vocalized to [u̯] in pre-literary Tuscan, with the resulting [au̯] regularly yielding [ɔ], as in Latin aurum (“gold”) > Italian òro. Doublet of talpa.
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