troubadour
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old Occitan trobar (“to find”) via Old French troubadour. Piecewise doublet of trouveur.
Noun
edittroubadour (plural troubadours)
- An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
- 2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.
Coordinate terms
editDerived terms
editTranslations
editan itinerant performer of songs
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Danish
editNoun
edittroubadour c (singular definite troubadouren, plural indefinite troubadourer)
- Alternative spelling of trubadur
Declension
editDeclension of troubadour
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | troubadour | troubadouren | troubadourer | troubadourerne |
genitive | troubadours | troubadourens | troubadourers | troubadourernes |
French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Occitan trobador (< trobar (“to find”)) via Old French troubadour. Corresponds to the native French trouveur.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file)
Noun
edittroubadour m (plural troubadours, feminine troubadouresse or trobairitz)
Coordinate terms
editFurther reading
edit- “troubadour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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