tropicus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of a turn; of the solstice; of a trope”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtrɔ.pɪ.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪rɔː.pi.kus]
Adjective
tropicus (feminine tropica, neuter tropicum); first/second-declension adjective
- relating to a turning, to change; (Medieval Latin) changeable
- (rhetoric) relating to tropes; figurative, metaphorical
- (relational) solstice, equinox
- (transferred sense) tropical
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | tropicus | tropica | tropicum | tropicī | tropicae | tropica | |
| genitive | tropicī | tropicae | tropicī | tropicōrum | tropicārum | tropicōrum | |
| dative | tropicō | tropicae | tropicō | tropicīs | |||
| accusative | tropicum | tropicam | tropicum | tropicōs | tropicās | tropica | |
| ablative | tropicō | tropicā | tropicō | tropicīs | |||
| vocative | tropice | tropica | tropicum | tropicī | tropicae | tropica | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: tropic, trop. (abbreviation), tropick (obsolete), Tropic
- → Finnish: trooppinen
- → French: tropique
- → Galician: trópico
- → Irish: trópaic
- → Italian: tropico
- → Portuguese: trópico
- → Spanish: trópico
- → Tagalog: tropiko
References
- “tropicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tropicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tropicus” on page 1981/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “tropicus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC