trop

• enPR: trŏp
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹɒp/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɹɔp/, (cot–caught merger) /tɹɑp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp
• Hyphenation: trop

Abbreviation of troponin.

trop (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Abbreviation of troponin.

• trop rock

See trope (“cantillation pattern”).

trop (plural trops)

1. Alternative form of trope (“cantillation pattern”).

• PORT, Port, Port., Prot., port, prot-, torp

Borrowed from Latin tropus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɾɔp]
• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Hyphenation: tròp

trop m (plural trops)

1. (rhetoric) trope (figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning)

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trop

1. (obsolete) too much, too many

trop

1. (obsolete) too, too much

   Synonym: massa

• “trop”, 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
• “trop”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “trop” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trop” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French trop, from Old French trop (“unreasonably excessive”), from Frankish *þorp (“a cluster, agglomeration", also "collection of houses, village”), from Proto-Germanic *þurpą (“village”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”) which are cognate with Old Saxon thorp (“village”), Old High German dorf (“village”), Old English þorp (“village”). Cognate with Italian troppo, and Piedmontese tròp/trop. More at English thorp, English troop.

• IPA^(key): /tʁo/, (in liaison) /tʁɔ.p‿/, /tʁo.p‿/^{[liaison 1]}
• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)

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• Homophone: trot

trop

1. too; too much

   La soupe est trop chaude.

   The soup is too hot.

   J'ai trop mangé.

   I have eaten too much.

2. (colloquial, intensifier) very, really, so

   Synonyms: méga, fin

   Elle est trop belle !

   She is so beautiful!

• Esperanto: tro
• Louisiana Creole: tro

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

• port

trop

1. too; too much

• French: trop

From Old French trop (“unreasonably excessive”), from Frankish *þorp (“a cluster, agglomeration”).

trop

1. (Guernsey) too; too much

• trope, tro

Borrowed from Frankish *þorp.

trop

1. excessively; too
2. enough; sufficiently

• Middle French: trop
  • French: trop
• Norman: trop
• Picard: trôp, (Athois)
• Walloon: trop (Forrières), trop (Liégeois)

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “thorp”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 395

• tro

Borrowed from Frankish *þorp. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French trop.

trop

1. too (excessively; to an excessive extent)

• Occitan: tròp

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “thorp”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 395

• trup

• IPA^(key): /trup/

trop m (plural trop)

1. flock

   Synonym: strop

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɔp/

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• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: trop

From dialectal Proto-Slavic *tropъ.

trop m inan

1. clue

   Synonyms: klucz, wskazówka

2. trace

   Synonyms: poszlaka, ślad

3. spoor

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

trop

1. second-person singular imperative of tropić

• trop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• trop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French trope, from Latin tropus.

trop m (plural tropi)

1. trope