troppus

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Frankish *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą (group, crowd, village) or Proto-Germanic *þruppaz, *þrubą (cluster).[1] Doublet of trabs.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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troppus m (genitive troppī); second declension[2][3]

  1. (Medieval Latin) herd, flock

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative troppus troppī
genitive troppī troppōrum
dative troppō troppīs
accusative troppum troppōs
ablative troppō troppīs
vocative troppe troppī

Descendants

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From feminine *truppa
  • Old French: trope, trupe
    • Middle French: troupe
      • French: troupe (see there for further descendants)
  • Iberian:
  • Italian: truppa
  • Old Occitan: tropa
  • Sicilian: truppa
From masculine *troppus

References

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  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*þruban-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 548
  2. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “troppus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1046
  3. ^ troppus 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)