tropicus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τροπῐκός (tropĭkós, “of a turn; of the solstice; of a trope”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɔ.pɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɔː.pi.kus]
• Hyphenation: tro‧pi‧cus

tropicus (feminine tropica, neuter tropicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. relating to a turning, to change; (Medieval Latin) changeable
2. (rhetoric) relating to tropes; figurative, metaphorical
3. (relational) solstice, equinox
4. (transferred sense) tropical

   abdita silva tropica ― jungle

First/second-declension adjective.

• tropicē

• → English: tropic, trop. (abbreviation), tropick (obsolete), Tropic
• → Finnish: trooppinen
• → French: tropique
  • → Khmer: ត្រូពិក (troupɨk)
  • → Polish: tropik
  • → Romanian: tropic
  • → Turkish: tropik
• → Galician: trópico
• → Irish: trópaic
• → Italian: tropico
• → Portuguese: trópico
• → Spanish: trópico
  • → Tagalog: tropiko

• “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