trouvère

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French trouvère. === Noun === trouvère (plural trouvères) 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) ==== Related terms ==== troubadour m ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === overture == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from French trouvère. === Pronunciation === === Noun === trouvère m (plural trouvères, diminutive trouvèretje n) a trouvère ==== Related terms ==== troubadour m == French == === Etymology === Inherited 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, 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”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tʁu.vɛʁ/ === Noun === trouvère m (plural trouvères, feminine trouveresse or trouvèresse) (poetry) a trouvère, medieval lyric poet using the Northern langue d'oïl (precursor lects of modern French), as opposed to their older, southern example, the original troubadours, who used langue d'oc (Occitan) ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “trouvère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === retrouve, retrouvé rouverte