•a common thread or leading thread (common or central characteristic in something, esp. of narrative importance) · Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rode, draad.
aile: apretar el argumento, argumental, argumentista, argumento a contrariis, argumento ad hominem, argumento de autoridad, desatar el argumento, retorsión del argumento
a common theme that runs through something, a common thread
çekim: çoğul röda trådar · tamlayan röd tråds
köken: Compound of röd (“red”) + tråd (“thread”). Calque of German roter Faden, coined by German writer and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Die Wahlverwandschaften. A metaphor commonly said to derive from the practice of the British Navy of incorporating a red thread into its ropes.
Fascinationen för älgar löper som en röd tråd genom hennes böcker
Den röda tråden under mötet var behovet av att få folk att lyssna
subject (main topic) · theme, topic (what is generally being talked about) · stem (part of a word invariant under inflection)
çekim: çoğul tematy · tamlayan tematu
eş: motyw, rdzeń, motyw
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti Ancient Greek τῐ́θημῐ (tĭ́thēmĭ) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek θέμα (théma)bor. Latin themalbor. Polish temat Learned borrowing from Latin thema. First attested in the 19th century. Compare Kashubian téma and Silesian tymat.
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀼𑀢𑁆𑀢 (sutta), from Sanskrit सूत्र (sūtra), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *súHtram, from Proto-Indo-European *súh₁trom, from *s(y)uh₁- (“to sew”). Doublet of सूत्र (sūtra). Cognate with Marathi सूत (sūt), Konkani सूत (sūt), Assamese সূত (xut), and Thai สูตร (sùut).