trombe

trombe (plural trombes)

1. Alternative form of tromp (“blowing apparatus in a forge”).

Learned borrowing from New Latin thrombus, from Ancient Greek θρόμβος (thrómbos).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾom.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾom.be]

trombe m (plural trombes)

1. (medicine) thrombus

• trombosi

• “trombe”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From being shaped like a trumpet. Inherited from Middle French, borrowed from Italian tromba. Doublet of trompe.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ̃b/

trombe f (plural trombes)

1. (meteorology, Europe) waterspout

   Synonym: (North American French) trombe marine

2. (meteorology, North America) whirlwind

• → English: tromp
• → German: Trombe
  • → Swedish: tromb

• “trombe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• tomber

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrom.be/
• Rhymes: -ombe
• Hyphenation: tróm‧be

trombe

1. plural of tromba

trombe

1. inflection of trombar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative