trouvère

Borrowed from French trouvère.

trouvère (plural trouvères)

1. A medieval lyric poet using the Northern langue d’oïl (precursor dialects of modern French), as opposed to their older, southern example, the original troubadours, who used langue d’oc (Occitan)

• troubadour m

• overture

Borrowed from French trouvère.

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trouvère m (plural trouvères, diminutive trouvèretje n)

1. A trouvère

• troubadour m

From Middle French trouvere, from Old French trovere (nominative singular case of troveor, from trover (“to find”) + -eor (agent noun suffix)), or possibly corresponding to a Gallo-Vulgar Latin *tropātor, from the verb *tropō, tropāre, from Latin tropus. Cognate with Old Occitan (and Modern Occitan and Catalan) trobador (the form trouvère is directly cognate with the Occitan form trobaire, itself from the nominative singular case of the corresponding Old Occitan form), from the verb trobar (“to find”).

trouvère m (plural trouvères)

1. A trouvère, medieval lyric poet using the Northern langue d'oïl (precursor dialects of modern French), as opposed to their older, southern example, the original troubadours, who used langue d'oc (Occitan)

• troubadour m
• trouvable, introuvable
• trouvaille
• trouveur m
• trouver

• “trouvère” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• retrouve, retrouvé
• rouverte