tropicus

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek τροπῐκός (tropĭkós, “of a turn; of the solstice; of a trope”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtrɔ.pɪ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtrɔː.pi.kus] Hyphenation: tro‧pi‧cus === Adjective === tropicus (feminine tropica, neuter tropicum); first/second-declension adjective relating to a turning, to change; (Medieval Latin) changeable (rhetoric) relating to tropes; figurative, metaphorical (relational) solstice, equinox (transferred sense) tropical abdita silva tropica ― jungle ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== tropicē ==== Descendants ==== → English: tropic, trop. (abbreviation), tropick (obsolete), Tropic → Finnish: trooppinen → French: tropique→ Khmer: ត្រូពិក (troupɨk)→ Polish: tropik→ Romanian: tropic→ Turkish: tropik → Galician: trópico → Irish: trópaic → Italian: tropico → Portuguese: trópico → Spanish: trópico → Tagalog: tropiko === References === “tropicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tropicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “tropicus” on page 1981/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82) R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “tropicus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC