different between conceit vs trope

English

Alternative forms

• conceipt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English conceyte, formed from conceyven by analogy with pairs such as (Modern English) deceive~deceit, receive~receipt etc. Doublet of concept and concetto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?si?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

conceit (countable and uncountable, plural conceits)

1. (obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. [14th–18th c.]
   • 1611, King James Version, Proverbs 26:12

     a man wise in his own conceit
2. The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
   • c. 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

     How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.

3. Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
4. (obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment. [14th–18th c.]
5. (now rare, dialectal) Esteem, favourable opinion. [from 15th c.]
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 345:

     [G]ive him thy thanks for putting her into conceit with the sex that thou hast given her so much reason to execrate.

6. (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim. [from 16th c.]
   • 1679, John Dryden, The Essay on Satire

     Tasso […] is full of conceits […] which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.

   • 2012, Lauren Elkin, Scott Esposito, The End of Oulipo?: An attempt to exhaust a movement

     The book's main conceit is to make poetry from univocal words (words containing just one vowel) […]

8. (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. [from 16th c.]

   Coordinate terms: metaphor, simile, concetto
9. (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. [from 17th c.]
   • 1826, Nathaniel Cotton, Fables

     Plum'd with conceit he calls aloud.

10. Design; pattern.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

conceit (third-person singular simple present conceits, present participle conceiting, simple past and past participle conceited)

1. (obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
   • 1643: John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

     Those whose […] vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To conceive.

   • The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive […] as if they really were so.

   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:

     That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.

Further reading

• conceit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• conceit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• conceit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle English

Noun

conceit

1. Alternative form of conceyte

English

Etymology

From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (trópos, “a manner, style, turn, way; a trope or figure of speech; a mode in music; a mode or mood in logic”), related to ????? (trop?, “solstice; trope; turn”) and ??????? (trépein, “to turn”); compare turn of phrase. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???p/, [t????p]
• (General American) enPR: tr?p, IPA^(key): /t?o?p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

trope (plural tropes)

1. (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
2. (medieval Christianity) An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
   • 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song

     Since the tories have thus disappointed my hopes, / And will neither regard my figures nor tropes;
4. (geometry) Mathematical senses.
   1. A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
   2. (archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
5. (music) Musical senses.
   1. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
   2. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
   3. (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
6. (philosophy) Philosophical senses.
   1. (Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
   2. (metaphysics) A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.

Usage notes

In the art or literature sense, the word trope is similar to archetype and cliché, but is not necessarily pejorative.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

trope (third-person singular simple present tropes, present participle troping, simple past and past participle troped)

1. (transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
2. (transitive) Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.
   1. To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
   2. To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
   3. To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.
3. (intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes.

Synonyms

• tropify

Derived terms

• tropable

Translations

Related terms

Further reading

• trope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (cinema) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (philosophy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• trope at OneLook Dictionary Search
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “trope”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• trope in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Perot, Petro, Porte, opter, petro, petro-, ptero-, repot, tepor, toper

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??p/

Noun

trope m (plural tropes)

1. (music, literature, linguistics) trope

Further reading

• “trope” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

trope

1. vocative singular of tropus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (trópos)

Noun

trope m (definite singular tropen, indefinite plural troper, definite plural tropene)

1. tropics (usually the definite plural tropene, but trope is used in compound words)
2. a trope (in literature, rhetoric)

Derived terms

• tropeklima

References

• “trope” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “trope_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “trope_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (trópos)

Noun

trope m (definite singular tropen, indefinite plural tropar, definite plural tropane)

1. tropics (usually the definite plural tropane, but trope is used in compound words)
2. a trope (in literature, rhetoric)

Derived terms

• tropeklima

References

• “trope” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.