trop

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɒp/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

trop (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Abbreviation of troponin.

See also

• trop rock

Etymology 2

trop (plural trops)

1. Alternative form of trope (“cantillation pattern”)

Anagrams

• PORT, Port, Port., Prot., port, prot-, torp

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tropus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)

Noun

trop m (plural trops)

1. (rhetoric) trope

Etymology 2

Pronoun

trop

1. (obsolete) too much, too many

Adverb

trop

1. (obsolete) too, too much

   Synonym: massa

Further reading

• “trop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “trop”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “trop” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French trop, from Old French trop (“unreasonably excessive”), from Frankish *þorp (“a cluster, agglomeration", also "collection of houses, village”), from Proto-Germanic *þurpą (“village”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”) which are cognate with Old Saxon thorp (“village”), Old High German dorf (“village”), Old English þorp (“village”). Cognate with Italian troppo, and Piedmontese tròp/trop. More at English thorp, English troop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁo/, (in liaison) /tʁɔ.p‿/, /tʁo.p‿/^{[liaison 1]}
• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)

• audio

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• Homophone: trot

Adverb

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, really, so

   Synonyms: méga, fin

   Elle est trop belle !

   She is so beautiful!

Usage notes

Derived terms

• de trop
• en trop
• par trop
• pas trop
• point trop n’en faut
• trop de

Descendants

• Esperanto: tro
• Louisiana Creole: tro

Further reading

• “trop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• port

Middle French

Adverb

trop

1. too; too much

Descendants

• French: trop

Norman

Etymology

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

Adverb

trop

1. (Guernsey) too; too much

Old French

Alternative forms

• trope, tro

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *þorp.

Adverb

trop

1. excessively; too
2. enough; sufficiently

Descendants

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

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “thorp”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 395

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• tro

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *þorp. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French trop.

Adverb

trop

1. too (excessively; to an excessive extent)

Descendants

• Occitan: tròp

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “thorp”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 395

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• trup

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trup/

Noun

trop m (plural trop)

1. flock

   Synonym: strop

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

trop

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɔp/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: trop

Etymology 1

From dialectal Proto-Slavic *tropъ.

Noun

trop m inan

1. clue

   Synonyms: klucz, wskazówka

2. trace

   Synonyms: poszlaka, ślad

3. spoor

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trop

1. second-person singular imperative of tropić

Further reading

• trop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• trop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French trope, from Latin tropus.

Noun

trop m (plural tropi)

1. trope

Declension