different between troves vs trover

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???vz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?o?vz/

Noun

troves

1. plural of trove

Anagrams

• Stover, orvets, rovest, storve, stover, strove, voters

Portuguese

Verb

troves

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of trovar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of trovar

References

• “troves” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “troves” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.

Spanish

Verb

troves

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of trovar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of trovar.

English

Etymology

Nominal use of Old French trover (“to find”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t???v?/

Noun

trover (countable and uncountable, plural trovers)

1. (law) Taking possession of personal property which has been found.
   • 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis:

     How did he like it when the live creatures

     Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,

     And worm, slug, eft, with serious features

     Came in, each one, for his right of trover?

2. (law) A legal action brought to recover such property by its original owner.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 431:

     The pocket-book was a late present from Mrs Western […] . A prudent person […] would not have offered more than a shilling, or perhaps sixpence, for it; nay, some perhaps would have given nothing, and left the fellow to his action of trover, which some learned serjeants may doubt whether he could, under these circumstances, have maintained.

   • 1792, Richard Burns & John Burns, A New Law Dictionary, Volume II, "Trover":

     By a fiction of law, actions of trover are now permittedto be brought against any person who hath got into his possession by any means whatsoever the goods of another, and sold them or used them without the consent of the owner, or refused to deliver them when demanded.

Anagrams

• Trevor

Old French

Alternative forms

• truver

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *trop?re, present active infinitive of *trop?, from Latin tropus. Compare Old Occitan trobar.

Verb

trover

1. to find

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem truev distinct from the unstressed stem trov, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• troveor

Descendants

• Bourguignon: trovai
• French: trouver
• Gallo: terouer
• Norman: trouvaer