tropus

See also: trópus

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Latin tropus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtropus]

Noun

tropus m inan

1. trope (figure of speech)

Declension

Declension of tropus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	tropus	tropy
genitive	tropu	tropů
dative	tropu	tropům
accusative	tropus	tropy
vocative	trope	tropy
locative	tropu	tropech
instrumental	tropem	tropy

See also

• řečnická figura
• obrat

Further reading

• “tropus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tropus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “tropus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

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

1. a figurative use of a word, a trope (postAug. for trānslātiō, verbōrum immūtātiō)
2. a way of singing, a song

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tropus	tropī
genitive	tropī	tropōrum
dative	tropō	tropīs
accusative	tropum	tropōs
ablative	tropō	tropīs
vocative	trope	tropī

Derived terms

• *tropō (Vulgar Latin)

Descendants

• → Catalan: trop
• → English: trope (see there for further descendants)
• → French: trope
  • → Romanian: trop
• → German: Tropus, Trope
• → Hungarian: trópus
• → Italian: tropo
• → Norwegian Bokmål: trope
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: trope
• → Portuguese: tropo
• → Spanish: tropo

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.