Noun: topo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: tò‧po
| Singular m | topo |
| Singular f | topa |
| Plural m | topi |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like topo
nipotino,
monferrino,
tiburtino,
evacuato,
angloamericano,
setino,
cristiano,
saputo,
favorito,
sciabordito,
somaro,
somalo,
ostrogoto,
sicano,
ugonotto,
ragazzino,
proscritto,
comacino,
nordafricano,
nizzardo, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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.
2. The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse. See: Latin Nouns '
talpa'.
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