trope

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: trōp, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹəʊp/, Template:SAMPA

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) tropus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) τρόπος (tropos).

Noun

trope (plural tropes)

1. A figure of speech, such as a metaphor, in which a word or phrase is used other than in a literal manner.
2. Template:music A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
3. Template:music A phrase or verse added to the mass when sung by a choir.
4. Template:Judaism A cantillation.
5. Template:literature Something recurring across a genre or type of literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror or ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairytales. Similar to an archetype (or a cliché, but not necessarily pejorative).

Derived terms

• tropical
• tropology

Translations

figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used other than in a literal manner

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 比喻 (bǐyù), 譬喻 (pìyù)

• Dutch: troop f
• French: trope (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Tropus m, Trope f
• Italian: tropo (it) m
• Japanese: 転義法 (てんぎほう, tengihō), 比喩 (ひゆ, hiyu)
• Russian: троп m (trop)
• Spanish: tropo

music: short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music

• Dutch: troop f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: tropo (it) m
• Template:trreq

music: phrase or verse added to the mass when sung by a choir

• Dutch: troop f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: tropo (it) m
• Template:trreq

judaism: cantillation

• Dutch: troop f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Template:trreq

literature: something recurring across a genre or type of literature

• Dutch: troop f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Template:trreq

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Greek: τρόπος

Verb

trope (third-person singular simple present trop, present participle ed, simple past and past participle troped)

1. To use, or embellish something with a trope.

Translations

use a trope

• Dutch: een troop gebruiken (nl), van een troop voorzien (nl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

External links

• “trope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “trope”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “trope”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• [tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage TV Tropes] Site with numerous current examples of tropes.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• repot
• tepor
• toper

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) trope

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) vocative singular of tropus