trope

== English == === 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) (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif. (medieval Christianity) An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor. (geometry) Mathematical senses. A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic. (archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface. (music) Musical senses. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique. (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it. Alternative form: trop Synonyms: ta'amim, teamim, te'amim (philosophy) Philosophical senses. (Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism. (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) (transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope. (transitive) Senses relating chiefly to art or literature. To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif. To turn into, coin, or create a new trope. To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes. (intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes. ==== Synonyms ==== tropify ==== Derived terms ==== tropable ==== Translations ==== === Related terms === === 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 William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “trope”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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 === ptero-, Porte, Perot, Petro, retop, petro-, repot, petro, tepor, toper, opter == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tʁɔp/ === Noun === trope m (plural tropes) (music, literature, linguistics) trope === Further reading === “trope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Noun === trope vocative singular of tropus == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos). === Noun === trope m (definite singular tropen, indefinite plural troper, definite plural tropene) tropics (usually the definite plural tropene, but trope is used in compound words) 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) tropics (usually the definite plural tropane, but trope is used in compound words) a trope (in literature, rhetoric) ==== Derived terms ==== tropeklima === References === “trope” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Portuguese == === Verb === trope inflection of tropar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative