tropus

Derived from Latin tropus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtropus]

tropus m inan

1. trope (figure of speech)

• řečnická figura
• obrat

• “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

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”).

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

Second-declension noun.

• *tropō (Vulgar Latin)

• “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.