trophée

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French trophée, borrowed from Latin trophaeum, tropaeum, from Ancient Greek τρόπαιον (trópaion, “monument of an enemy's defeat”), from neuter of τροπαῖος (tropaîos, “of defeat”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “a rout, a turning of an enemy”).

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Noun

trophée m (plural trophées)

1. trophy

Descendants

• → Norwegian: trofé
• → Romanian: trofeu
• → Swedish: trofé

Further reading

• “trophée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• trophee

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trophaeum, tropaeum, from Ancient Greek τρόπαιον (trópaion, “monument of an enemy's defeat”), from neuter of τροπαῖος (tropaîos, “of defeat”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “a rout, a turning of an enemy”).

Noun

trophée m (plural trophées)

1. memorial (structure commemorating an event)

Descendants

• French: trophée
  • → Norwegian: trofé
  • → Romanian: trofeu
  • → Swedish: trofé
• → Dutch: trofee
  • Afrikaans: trofee
• → English: trophy
  • → Japanese: トロフィー (torofī)
  • → Korean: 트로피 (teuropi)
  • → Malayalam: ട്രോഫി (ṭrōphi)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (trophée, supplement)