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Definitions and meaning of trope

trope

Etymology

From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a manner, style, turn, way; a trope or figure of speech; a mode in music; a mode or mood in logic”), related to τροπή (tropḗ, “solstice; trope; turn”) and τρέπειν (trépein, “to turn”); compare turn of phrase. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹəʊp/, [tɹ̥əʊp]
• (General American) enPR: trōp, IPA^(key): /tɹoʊp/
• Rhymes: -əʊp

Noun

trope (plural tropes)

1. (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
2. (medieval Christianity) An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
4. (geometry) Mathematical senses.
   1. A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
   2. (archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
5. (music) Musical senses.
   1. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
   2. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
   3. (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
6. (philosophy) Philosophical senses.
   1. (Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
   2. (metaphysics) A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.

Usage notes

In the art or literature sense, the word trope is similar to archetype and cliché, but is not necessarily pejorative.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Japanese: トロープ (torōpu)
• Korean: 트로프 (teuropeu)

Translations

Verb

trope (third-person singular simple present tropes, present participle troping, simple past and past participle troped)

1. (transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
2. (transitive) Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.
   1. To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
   2. To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
   3. To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.
3. (intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes.

Synonyms

• tropify

Derived terms

• tropable

Translations

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Further reading

• trope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (cinema) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (philosophy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “trope”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “trope”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “trope”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• “trope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Perot, Petro, Porte, opter, petro, petro-, ptero-, repot, tepor, toper

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔp/

Noun

trope m (plural tropes)

1. (music, literature, linguistics) trope

Further reading

• “trope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Noun

trope

1. vocative singular of tropus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos).

Noun

trope m (definite singular tropen, indefinite plural troper, definite plural tropene)

1. tropics (usually the definite plural tropene, but trope is used in compound words)
2. a trope (in literature, rhetoric)

Derived terms

• tropeklima

References

• “trope” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “trope_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “trope_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos).

Noun

trope m (definite singular tropen, indefinite plural tropar, definite plural tropane)

1. tropics (usually the definite plural tropane, but trope is used in compound words)
2. a trope (in literature, rhetoric)

Derived terms

• tropeklima

References

• “trope” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

trope

1. inflection of tropar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative