-trope

suffix

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *trep-der. Ancient Greek τρέπω (trépō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos)der. Latin tropusder. English -trope From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a turn, way, manner, style, a trope or figure of speech, a mode in music, a mode or mood in logic”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). See trope.

  1. derived from τρόπος — “a turn, way, manner, style, a trope or figure of speech, a mode in music, a mode or mood in logic
  2. derived from tropus

Definitions

  1. something that turns, affects, changes, responds, moves.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -trope. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA