trophée
French
editEtymology
editInherited 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”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
edittrophée m (plural trophées)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “trophée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
edittrophée m (plural trophées)
- memorial (structure commemorating an event)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (trophée, supplement)
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