troppus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą (“group, crowd, village”) or Proto-Germanic *þruppaz, *þrubą (“cluster”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

troppus m (genitive troppī); second declension[2][3]

  1. (Medieval Latin) herd, flock

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative troppus troppī
Genitive troppī troppōrum
Dative troppō troppīs
Accusative troppum troppōs
Ablative troppō troppīs
Vocative troppe troppī

Descendants
From feminine *truppa
  • Old French: trope, trupe
    • Middle French: troupe
      • French: troupe (see there for further descendants)
  • Iberian:
  • Italian: truppa
  • Old Occitan: tropa
  • Sicilian: truppa
From masculine *troppus
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *troppus (“too (much)”, adverb)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *troppellus

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*þruban-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 548
  2. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “troppus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1046
  3. troppus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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