trouveur

== English == === Etymology === From French trouveur. Piecewise doublet of troubadour. === Noun === trouveur (plural trouveurs) (dated) A minstrel, a troubadour. 1796, Robert Southey, Joan of Arc, Book IV, 1829, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 16, Meantime the Trouveur struck the harp; he sang Of Lancelot du Lake, the truest Knight That ever loved fair Lady; == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French trouveur, from trouver (“to find, invent”) +‎ -eur. Or from Old French troveor (objective/accusative case), itself from the verb trover + -eor, or possibly corresponding to a Gallo-Vulgar Latin *tropatōre(m), accusative of *tropātor, from the verb *tropō, tropāre, from Latin tropus. Cognate to Occitan trobador. See also French troubadour, which was taken from Old Occitan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tʁu.vœʁ/ === Noun === trouveur m (plural trouveurs, feminine trouveuse) a finder; discoverer an inventor, creator ==== Related terms ==== trouvable (adjective) trouvaille trouvé (adjective) trouver trouvère m === Further reading === “trouveur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle French == === Etymology === From trouver (“to find, invent”) +‎ -eur. Or from Old French troveor (objective/accusative case), itself from the verb trover + -eor, or possibly corresponding to a Gallo-Vulgar Latin *tropatōre(m), accusative of *tropātor, from the verb *tropō, tropāre, from Latin tropus. Cognate to Occitan trobador. See also Modern French troubadour, which was taken from Old Occitan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tʁu.vœʁ/ === Noun === trouveur m (plural trouveurs, feminine singular trouveresse, feminine plural trouveresses) finder, discoverer inventor, creator ==== Descendants ==== → French: trouveur