trovar

From Esperanto trovi, from French trouver and Italian trovare.

trovar (present tense trovas, past tense trovis, future tense trovos, imperative trovez, conditional trovus)

1. to find

    Conjugation of trovar

		present		past		future
infinitive		trovar		trovir		trovor
tense		trovas		trovis		trovos
conditional		trovus
imperative		trovez
adjective active participle		trovanta		trovinta		trovonta
adverbial active participle		trovante		trovinte		trovonte
nominal active participle	singular	trovanto		trovinto		trovonto
	plural	trovanti		trovinti		trovonti
adjective passive participle		trovata		trovita		trovota
adverbial passive participle		trovate		trovite		trovote
nominal passive participle	singular	trovato		trovito		trovoto
	plural	trovati		troviti		trovoti

trovar

1. to find

trovar (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of trovare

From Old Galician-Portuguese trobar, borrowed from Old Occitan trobar, which was inherited from Vulgar Latin *tropāre, from Latin tropus. Cognate with Galician trobar.

• Hyphenation: tro‧var

trovar (first-person singular present trovo, first-person singular preterite trovei, past participle trovado)

1. to compose verses or songs
2. (Rio Grande do Sul) to flirt with

   Tava trovando aquela guria, mas não deu certo. ― I was flirting with that girl, but it didn't go well.

• poetar

• “trovar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “trovar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trovar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Spanish trobar, from Old Occitan trobar, from Vulgar Latin *tropāre.

• IPA^(key): /tɾoˈbaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tro‧var

trovar (first-person singular present trovo, first-person singular preterite trové, past participle trovado)

1. (transitive) to versify, write poetry about something
2. (transitive) to misconstrue (figurative use)
3. (transitive, obsolete) to find, encounter, come across

   Synonyms: encontrar, hallar, pillar

   • ca. 1793-7, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Viaje a Italia :

     Una dama que se halla a pie y sola en medio de un bosque quisiera trovar un comodo para volverse a la ciudad, esto es, una proporción de carruage que pueda conducirla.

     A lady who finds herself on foot and alone in the middle of a forest would like to find a couch with which to go back to the city, that is, any type of carriage that will drive her there.

• “trovar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10