trópico
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: tró‧pi‧co
Noun
trópico m (plural trópicos)
- tropic (either of the two parallels north and south of the equator)
Adjective
trópico (feminine trópica, masculine plural trópicos, feminine plural trópicas)
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin tropicus, from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós), from τροπή (tropḗ, “a turning”).
Pronunciation
Noun
trópico m (plural trópicos)
Derived terms
Adjective
trópico (feminine trópica, masculine plural trópicos, feminine plural trópicas)
- (relational) trope (of or relating to tropes and their use)
Related terms
Further reading
- “trópico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014