Reconstruction:Latin/tropare

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

Most likely a verb based on tropus (“figurative use of a word”). Adopted the meaning “to find” from inveniō (a verb it ultimately replaced), which meant both “to compose” and “to find”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /troˈbaːr/

Verb

*tropāre (Proto-Gallo-Romance) (?)

  1. find
    Synonyms: inveniō, reperiō; (in Vulgar Latin and descendants) afflō, captō
  2. compose (verses)

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: truvà
    • Istriot: truvà
    • Italian: trovare
    • Sicilian: truvari
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: trobar
    • Old Catalan: trobar [ca. 1274–6]
    • Old French: trover [11th c.] (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Occitan: trobar [11th c.] (see there for further descendants)

References

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