trop

See also: trop.

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French trop, from Old French trop (“unreasonably excessive”), from Frankish *thorp (“a cluster, agglomeration", also "collection of houses, village”), from Proto-Germanic *þurpą (“village”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”). Cognate with Old Saxon thorp (“village”), Old High German thorf (“village”), Old English þorp (“village”). More at thorp, troop.

PronunciationEdit

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• IPA^(key): /tʁo/

AdverbEdit

trop

1. too; too much

   La soupe est trop chaude.

   The soup is too hot.

   J'ai trop mangé.

   I have eaten too much.

2. (colloquial, intensifier) very

   Elle est trop belle !

   She is very beautiful!

SynonymsEdit

• (colloquial intensifier): méga, fin

See alsoEdit

• de trop
• pas trop
• trop de

AnagramsEdit

• port

Further readingEdit

• “trop” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle FrenchEdit

AdverbEdit

trop

1. too; too much

DescendantsEdit

• French: trop

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NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French trop (“unreasonably excessive”), from Frankish *thorp (“a cluster, agglomeration”).

AdverbEdit

trop

1. (Guernsey) too; too much

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Old FrenchEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• trope, tro

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Frankish *thorp

AdverbEdit

trop

1. excessively; too
2. enough; sufficiently

DescendantsEdit

• Middle French: trop
  • French: trop
• Norman: trop
• Picard: trôp, (Athois)
• Walloon: trop (Forrières), trop (Liégeois)

ReferencesEdit

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “thorp”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 170, page 395

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Old ProvençalEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• tro

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Frankish *thorp. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French trop.

AdjectiveEdit

trop

1. too (excessively; to an excessive extent)

ReferencesEdit

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “thorp”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 170, page 395

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PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From dialectal Proto-Slavic *tropъ.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /trɔp/

NounEdit

trop m inan

1. clue
2. trace
3. spoor

DeclensionEdit

declension of trop

	singular	plural
nominative	trop	tropy
genitive	tropu	tropów
dative	tropowi	tropom
accusative	trop	tropy
instrumental	tropem	tropami
locative	tropie	tropach
vocative	tropie	tropy

Related termsEdit

• (verb) tropić
• (noun) tropiciel

SynonymsEdit

• (clue): klucz, wskazówka
• (trace): poszlaka, ślad