different between trow vs tron

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t?o?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /t???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English trowen, trouwen, treuwen, treowen, from Old English tr?owan, tr?ewan (“to trust”) and Old English tr?wian (“to trust, confide”), from Proto-Germanic *treww?n? (“to trust”) and Proto-Germanic *tr?w?n? (“to trust”); both from Proto-Indo-European *drew- (“faithful, true”).

Akin to Scots trow, trew (“to believe, trust, confide in, prove”), Dutch trouwen (“to wed, marry”), German trauen (“to trust, marry”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish tro (“to believe, think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tru (“to believe, think”), Icelandic trúa (“to trust, believe, believe in”).

Verb

trow (third-person singular simple present trows, present participle trowing, simple past and past participle trowed)

1. (archaic or dialectal) To trust or believe.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamorphoses; Bk. 2 lines 527-9:

     ...Sure (he said) my wife shall never know

     Of this escape, and if she do, I know the worst I trow

     She can but chide, shall feare of chiding make me to forslow?
2. (archaic or dialectal) To have confidence in, or to give credence to.

Noun

trow (usually uncountable, plural trows)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Trust or faith.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

trow (countable and uncountable, plural trows)

1. (dated, nautical, countable) Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods.
2. (Scotland, dated) Troll.

Anagrams

• ROTW, rowt, wort

Middle English

Noun

trow

1. Alternative form of tre

English

Noun

tron (plural trons)

1. Obsolete form of trone (weighing machine)

Anagrams

• ront, torn

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (thrónos).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t??n/

Noun

tron m (plural trons)

1. throne

Derived terms

• entronitzar

Further reading

• “tron” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tron” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tron” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tron” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tro?n/

Noun

tron m (plural tronow or tronyow)

1. nose, snout
2. point (of land)
3. (Revived Late Cornish) tunnel

Mutation

Synonyms

• dewfrik
• frigow

Danish

Verb

tron

1. imperative of trone

Middle English

Noun

tron

1. Alternative form of trone (“throne”)

Norman

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

tron m

1. (Jersey) blunt

Etymology 2

From Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”).

Noun

tron m (plural trons)

1. (Jersey) trunk

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tron

1. imperative of trone

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Catalan tro), from Latin tonus (“thunderclap; sound, tone”) (possibly through a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *tronus), incremented with an -r- due to influence from *tronitus < tonitrus), and ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos); compare also Portuguese trom, Spanish trueno).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tru/

Noun

tron m (plural trons)

1. thunder

Related terms

• tronar

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• trun

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tru?/

Noun

tron m (plural tron)

1. thunder

Polish

Etymology

From Old High German t(h)r?n, from Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (thrónos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?n/

Noun

tron m inan

1. throne

Declension

Related terms

• tronowy

Further reading

• tron in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French trône, Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (thrónos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tron/

Noun

tron n (plural tronuri)

1. throne

See also

• scaun
• je?

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

• tro + an

Preposition

tron

1. through the

Spanish

Noun

tron m (plural trones)

1. (colloquial) guy, dude, bro

   Synonyms: tronco, tío

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tru?n/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tron c

1. a throne; an ornate seat

Declension

Related terms

• tronföljare
• trontal

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

tron

1. definite singular of tro

Anagrams

• torn