trouveur

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English

Etymology

From French trouveur. Piecewise doublet of troubadour.

Noun

trouveur (plural trouveurs)

  1. (dated) A minstrel, a troubadour.
    • 1796, Robert Southey, Joan of Arc, Book IV, 1829, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 16,
      Meantime the Trouveur struck the harp; he sang
      Of Lancelot du Lake, the truest Knight
      That ever loved fair Lady;
    • 1834, Robert Thomson, Treatise on the Progress of Literature and its Effects on Society, page 81:
      But, secondly, a great many of these tales were borrowed from the narratives of the trouveurs or minstrels who wandered through the north of France, relating stories or reciting poems for the amusement of their entertainers.
    • 1835, Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature, First Series, page 118:
      The origin of these tales must be traced to the inventions of the Trouveurs, who doubtless often adopted them from various nations.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French trouveur, from trouver (“to find, invent”) +‎ -eur. Or from Old French troveor (objective/accusative case), itself from the verb trover + -eor, or possibly corresponding to a Gallo-Vulgar Latin *tropatōre(m), accusative of *tropātor, from the verb *tropō, tropāre, from Latin tropus. Cognate to Occitan trobador. See also French troubadour, which was taken from Old Occitan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁu.vœʁ/
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Noun

trouveur m (plural trouveurs, feminine trouveuse)

  1. a finder; discoverer
  2. an inventor, creator

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

From trouver (“to find, invent”) +‎ -eur. Or from Old French troveor (objective/accusative case), itself from the verb trover + -eor, or possibly corresponding to a Gallo-Vulgar Latin *tropatōre(m), accusative of *tropātor, from the verb *tropō, tropāre, from Latin tropus. Cognate to Occitan trobador. See also Modern French troubadour, which was taken from Old Occitan.

Pronunciation

Noun

trouveur m (plural trouveurs, feminine singular trouveresse, feminine plural trouveresses)

  1. finder, discoverer
  2. inventor, creator

Descendants

  • → French: trouveur
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