Etymograph

English

topas

Topas comes from Portuguese topaz.

  1. Portuguesec. 1500–presenttopaz1
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2020topas1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English topas
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: “The topas represented the earlier colonial presence of Portugal…”.

Lineage

  1. Portuguesec. 1500–presenttopazWiktionary, English topas
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2020topasWiktionary, English topas. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: “The topas represented the earlier colonial presence of Portugal…”

Every English word from Portuguese topaz

Today it means

noun A person of mixed black and Portuguese descent.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “topas”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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