tropus
See also: trópus
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Noun edit
tropus m inan
- trope (figure of speech)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a turn, way, manner, style, a trope or figure of speech, a mode in music, a mode or mood in logic”).
Noun edit
tropus m (genitive tropī); second declension
- a figurative use of a word, a trope (postAug. for trānslātiō, verbōrum immūtātiō)
- a way of singing, a song
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tropus | tropī |
Genitive | tropī | tropōrum |
Dative | tropō | tropīs |
Accusative | tropum | tropōs |
Ablative | tropō | tropīs |
Vocative | trope | tropī |
Derived terms edit
- *tropō (Vulgar Latin)
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References edit
- “tropus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tropus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tropus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.