trope
English
/tɹəʊp/, /tɹoʊp/
noun
Definitions
- (art) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
- (geometry)
- (music)
- (philosophy)
Etymology
Derived from Latin tropus (figure of speech) derived from Ancient Greek τρόπος (turn, way, manner, a turn, style, direction, a mode in music, a trope figure of speech, a mode mood in logic, a manner, figure of speech, change, musical mode, response).
Origin
Ancient Greek
τρόπος
Gloss
turn, way, manner, a turn, style, direction, a mode in music, a trope figure of speech, a mode mood in logic, a manner, figure of speech, change, musical mode, response
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
方
Emoji
🙃
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -trope English
- -tropism English
- chronotropic English
- dromotropic English
- inotropic English
- metatrope English
- subtrope English
- tropable English
- troper English
- tropey English
- tropify English
- tropist English
- tropo- English
- tropomyosin English
- *tropatōre(m) Latin
- *tropo, *tropare Latin
- *tropo, tropare Latin
- *tropāre Latin
- *tropātor Latin
- tropus Latin
- Troposphäre German
- trópus Hungarian
- hepatotropo Spanish, Castilian
- δολιότροπος Ancient Greek
- πολύτροπος Ancient Greek
- σφαῖρα Ancient Greek
- τρέπω Ancient Greek
- τρόπος Ancient Greek
- ὁμοιότροπος Ancient Greek
- trope Norwegian Bokmål
- tropene Norwegian Bokmål
- troposfære Norwegian Bokmål
- trope Norwegian Nynorsk
- troposfære Norwegian Nynorsk
- tropus Czech
- tropo- Catalan, Valencian
- τρόπος Greek (modern)
- trobar Old Occitan