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Topos vs Tonos - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between topos and tonos

is that topos is a literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula while tonos is the Modern Greek stress-marking {{l/en|diacritic}}: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed {{l/en|syllable}}.

topos

English

(wikipedia topos)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
  • * 2003 , , Flesh in the Age of Reason , Penguin (2004), page 239,
    • The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.
  • (mathematics) A certain mathematical structure found in category theory.

    • Related terms

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    tonos

    English

    Noun

    (tonoi)
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    • Usage notes

    * The tonos is also used to distinguish some , the conjunction “or”. In such cases, the tonos does not reflect a difference in stress. * When combined with the  ?. * As a compromise of forms between the Ancient Greek  ?.