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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą (“group, crowd, village”) or Proto-Germanic *þruppaz, *þrubą (“cluster”).[1] Doublet of trabs.
Pronunciation
Noun
troppus m (genitive troppī); second declension[2][3]
- (Medieval Latin) herd, flock
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
- From feminine *truppa
- From masculine *troppus
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*þruban-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 548
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “troppus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1046
- ^ troppus 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)