trompe
See also: Trompe and trompé
English
Etymology
From French trompe.
Noun
trompe (plural trompes)
- (obsolete) A trumpet; a trump.
- Alternative form of tromp (“blowing apparatus in a forge”)
Anagrams
- emptor, pro tem, pro tem.
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtrompe/
Adverb
trompe
- deceptively
French
Etymology
From Middle French trompe, from Old French trompe, from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately from an imitative Germanic word akin to Old Dutch drumba, trumba (“trumpet, horn”), Old High German trumba, trumpa, Old Norse trumba. Doublet of trombe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɔ̃p/
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Noun
trompe f (plural trompes)
- trumpet
- trunk of an elephant
- squinch
Derived terms
- trompe auditive
- trompe de chasse
- trompe de Fallope
- trompe d'Eustache
Descendants
- → Romanian: trompă
Verb
trompe
- inflection of tromper:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “trompe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- promet
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French trompe.
Noun
trompe
- Alternative form of trumpe
Etymology 2
From Old French tromper.
Verb
trompe
- Alternative form of trumpen