Where does “trobador” come from?
trobador (Catalan) comes from Old Occitan trobador, from Old Occitan trobar, from Vulgar Latin tropare, from Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος, from Ancient Greek τροπή, from Ancient Greek -ή, from Ancient Greek -ᾱ.
trobador (Catalan): troubadour
Ancestry of “trobador”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old Occitan | trobador | — |
| 2 | Old Occitan | trobar | to find |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | tropare | to compose; present active infinitive of *tropō |
| 4 | Latin | tropus | a figurative use of a word, a trope; a way of... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τρόπος | a turn, way, manner, style; a trope or figure of... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τροπή | a turning; turning away the enemy, a rout;... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ή | — |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -ᾱ | nominal suffix |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |