Talk:tope

The entry incorrectly copied from Wikipedia was Toped citing dictionary.com. Any primary sources available? Print.google.com results indicate lots of proper nouns, and lots of other meanings, but I didn't see one that means a habitual drunk. --Connel MacKenzie T C 17:18, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * My COD defines "to tope" as to "drink alcohol to excess, esp habitually", and giving the noun "toper", as both dictionary.com and the entry? Jonathan Webley 21:37, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Can't provide a cite, but this is a fairly common word that shouldn't cause problems, as is "toper". Rich Farmbrough 22:27, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Its quite common. Andrew massyn 20:43, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

RFC discussion: October 2014
A few problems, only one of them major, which is tope which is definitionless but has "common usage: isotope i.e. "same place" (e.g. in the periodic table of the elements)." Not sure this is real or the definition that comes from that etymology. Etymology 1 I assume should be split, unless the "shark" and the "To drink excessively" senses are from the same etymology. Finally the Tamil and the Sanskrit would be nice, in etymologies 2 and 3. Thanks, Renard Migrant (talk) 17:56, 26 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I split the first etymology and deleted the fourth. I have a hunch the shark name is related to taupe because of the gray color, but I have absolutely no sources to back me up. The Buddhist structure sense looks like it might be a doublet of its synonym, stupa, but, there again, that's a guess. The deleted sense seems to be based on the assumption that isotope must be made up of two English morphemes- even though chemistry is full of terms coined from Greek parts that have no individual meaning in English. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:42, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree that the Buddhist sense is probably a doublet of, especially considering the Pali form of the latter is . —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 22:01, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks basically done. Of course original script is always better than no original script, but I don't consider it a 'cleanup' issue. Renard Migrant (talk) 00:01, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Etymology 3
See wikisource:Page:Life_in_India_or_Madras,_the_Neilgherries,_and_Calcutta.djvu/249 for a quotable? Shenme (talk) 05:19, 3 April 2021 (UTC)