trópico
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: tró‧pi‧co
Noun edit
trópico m (plural trópicos)
- tropic (either of the two parallels north and south of the equator)
Adjective edit
trópico (feminine trópica, masculine plural trópicos, feminine plural trópicas)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tropicus, from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós), from τροπή (tropḗ, “a turning”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trópico m (plural trópicos)
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
trópico (feminine trópica, masculine plural trópicos, feminine plural trópicas)
- (relational) trope (of or relating to tropes and their use)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “trópico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014