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”).

tropus m (genitive tropī); second declension

1. a figurative use of a word, a trope (postAug. for trānslātiō, verbōrum immūtātiō)
2. a way of singing, a song

Second declension.

• *tropō (Vulgar Latin)

• English: trope
• Portuguese: tropo

• tropus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tropus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tropus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette