different between trope vs trape

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.

English

Etymology

Perhaps via Medieval Latin *trappa, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dreb-, from *der- (“to walk, step”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?p/

Noun

trape (plural trapes)

1. (obsolete) A messy or untidy woman.
   • 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:

     Hard was his fate in this I own, / Nor will I for the trapes atone; / Indeed to guess I am not able, / What made her thus inexorable […]

Verb

trape (third-person singular simple present trapes, present participle traping, simple past and past participle traped)

1. (intransitive) To drag.
2. (intransitive) To run about idly or like a slattern.

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, treap

Old French

Alternative forms

• trappe

Etymology

Frankish *trappa (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, *tramp- (“to step”), from Proto-Indo-European *dremb- (“to run”). More at English trap.

Noun

trape f (oblique plural trapes, nominative singular trape, nominative plural trapes)

1. trap (device design to ensnare or trap)
2. hiding place

Descendants

• French: trappe

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (trape)
• trappe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Etymology

From French draper. Assimilated to trapo.

Noun

trape m (plural trapes)

1. (dated) intermediate fabric used to make drapery