trop

trop

See also: tròp, trop., trop-, -trop, and -trop-

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɒp/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

trop (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Abbreviation of troponin.

See also

• trop rock

Anagrams

• PORT, Port, Port., Prot., port, prot-, torp

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Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin tropus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɔp/

Noun

trop m (plural trops)

1. (rhetoric) trope

Pronoun

trop

1. (obsolete) too much, too many

Adverb

trop

1. (obsolete) too, too much

   Synonym: massa

Further reading

• “trop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “trop”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “trop” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

From Middle French trop, from Old French trop (“unreasonably excessive”), from Frankish *þorp (“a cluster, agglomeration", also "collection of houses, village”), from Proto-Germanic *þurpą (“village”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”) which are cognate with Old Saxon thorp (“village”), Old High German dorf (“village”), Old English þorp (“village”). Cognate with Italian troppo, and Piedmontese tròp/trop. More at English thorp, English troop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁo/, (in liaison) /tʁɔ.p‿/, /tʁo.p‿/[liaison 1]
• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)

• audio

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• Homophone: trot

Adverb

trop

1. too; too much

   La soupe est trop chaude.

   The soup is too hot.

   J'ai trop mangé.

   I have eaten too much.

2. (colloquial, intensifier) very, really, so

   Synonyms: méga, fin

   Elle est trop belle !

   She is so beautiful!

Usage notes

1. Liaison is only permitted after adverbial use of trop: when used (pro)nominally (as in the sentence il y en a trop ici), it takes on the quality of a singular noun that prevents liaison with the following word. As it can be difficult to draw an unequivocal distinction between its adverbial and nominal uses, one may prefer to always forgo liaison following trop — even where it is permissible, liaison after trop is not only optional, but also significantly more formal than necessary (or appropriate) for most situations.

Derived terms

• de trop
• en trop
• par trop
• pas trop
• point trop n'en faut
• trop de

Descendants

• Esperanto: tro

Further reading

• “trop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• port

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Middle French

Adverb

trop

1. too; too much

Descendants

• French: trop

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French trop (“unreasonably excessive”), from Frankish *þorp (“a cluster, agglomeration”).

Adverb

trop

1. (Guernsey) too; too much

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Old French

Alternative forms

• trope, tro

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *þorp.

Adverb

trop

1. excessively; too
2. enough; sufficiently

Descendants

• Middle French: trop
  • French: trop
• Norman: trop
• Picard: trôp, (Athois)
• Walloon: trop (Forrières), trop (Liégeois)

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “thorp”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 395

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Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• tro

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *þorp. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French trop.

Adverb

trop

1. too (excessively; to an excessive extent)

Descendants

• Occitan: tròp

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “thorp”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 395

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Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• trup

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trup/

Noun

trop m (plural trop)

1. flock

   Synonym: strop

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɔp/
• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: trop

Etymology 1

From dialectal Proto-Slavic *tropъ.

Noun

trop m inan

1. clue

   Synonyms: klucz, wskazówka

2. trace

   Synonyms: poszlaka, ślad

3. spoor

Declension

Declension of trop

	singular	plural
nominative	trop	tropy
genitive	tropu	tropów
dative	tropowi	tropom
accusative	trop	tropy
instrumental	tropem	tropami
locative	tropie	tropach
vocative	tropie	tropy

Related terms

noun

• tropiciel

 

verb

• tropić

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trop

1. second-person singular imperative of tropić

Further reading

• trop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• trop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From French trope, from Latin tropus.

Noun

trop m (plural tropi)

1. trope

Declension

Declension of trop

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) trop	tropul	(niște) tropi	tropii
genitive/dative	(unui) trop	tropului	(unor) tropi	tropilor
vocative	tropule		tropilor