commonplace
locus communis
koinos topos
koi'-nos to'-pos Also common place

  1. Synonym for topic of invention.
  2. The progymnasmata exercise, commonplace.
  3. A short, pithy, saying—snonymous with adage, apothegm, gnome, maxim, paroemia, proverb, or sententia.


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Gideon O. Burton, Brigham Young University
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