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Czech
Etymology
Derived from Latin tropus.
Pronunciation
Noun
tropus m inan
- trope (figure of speech)
Declension
Declension of tropus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
See also
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
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
- a figurative use of a word, a trope (postAug. for trānslātiō, verbōrum immūtātiō)
- a way of singing, a song
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
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.