troppus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą (“group, crowd, village”) or Proto-Germanic *þruppaz, *þrubą (“cluster”).[1] Doublet of trabs.

Pronunciation

Noun

troppus m (genitive troppī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. herd, flock

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative troppus troppī
genitive troppī troppōrum
dative troppō troppīs
accusative troppum troppōs
ablative troppō troppīs
vocative troppe troppī

Descendants

From feminine *truppa
  • Old French: trope, trupe
    • Middle French: troupe
      • French: troupe (see there for further descendants)
  • Iberian:
  • Italian: truppa
  • Old Occitan: tropa
  • Sicilian: truppa
From masculine *troppus
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *troppus (“too (much)”, adverb)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *troppellus

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*þruban-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 548
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