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top·ic

[top-ik]
noun
1.
a subject of conversation or discussion: to provide a topic for discussion.
2.
the subject or theme of a discourse or of one of its parts.
3.
Rhetoric, Logic. a general field of considerations from which arguments can be drawn.
4.
Also called theme. Linguistics. the part of a sentence that announces the item about which the rest of the sentence communicates information, often signaled by initial position in the sentence or by a grammatical marker. Compare comment (def. 6).

Origin:
1560–70; < Latin topica (plural) < Greek () topiká name of work by Aristotle (literally, (things) pertaining to commonplaces), equivalent to tóp(os) commonplace + -ika, neuter plural of -ikos -ic; see topo-


2. thesis, subject matter. See subject.

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Word Origin & History

topic
1634, "argument suitable for debate," singular form of "Topics" (1568), the name of a work by Aristotle on logical and rhetorical generalities, from L. Topica, from Gk. Ta Topika, lit. "matters concerning topoi," from topoi "commonplaces," neut. pl. of topikos "commonplace, of a place," from topos "place."
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The meaning "matter treated in speech or writing, subject, theme" is first recorded 1720. Topical "of or pertaining to topics of the day" is recorded from 1873.
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