tropus Latin · revision 9372

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Quintilian|origins=ine-pro *trep-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tropus''' ''m'' (genitive tropī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''tropos''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|τρόπος|tr=trópos|t=turn, manner; figure of speech]], from [[m|grc|τρέπω|tr=trépō|t=to turn]], [[ine-pro|*trep-|t=to turn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD and Lewis & Short cite Quintilian, who discusses tropes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Quintilian c. 35–95/96 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In rhetoric it was a figure of speech, the figurative use of a word, a post-Augustan term for ''trānslātiō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it was a trope, a song or manner of singing.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it was a chant, and a trope, a melody and text added to a liturgical chant.^(Niermeyer 1976) British glossaries also have it for mode, manner.^(DMLBS) [[en|trope]] is recorded in the 1530s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English ''trope'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A [[m|en|figure of speech]], [[m|en|trope]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A chant; a trope added to a liturgical chant.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[figūra]]

+ * [[en|trope]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}