tropus

See also: trópus

Czech

Etymology

From Latin tropus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtropus]

Noun

tropus m

1. trope (figure of speech)

See also

• řečnická figura
• obrat

Further reading

• tropus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• tropus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• tropus in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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Latin

Etymology

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

tropus m (genitive tropī); second declension

1. a figurative use of a word, a trope (postAug. for trānslātiō, verbōrum immūtātiō)
2. a way of singing, a song

Declension

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

• *tropō (Vulgar Latin)

Descendants

• → English: trope
• Portuguese: tropo

References

• “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