Where does “trouveur” come from?
trouveur (English) comes from French trouveur, from Middle French trouveur, from Middle French trouver, from Old French trover, from Vulgar Latin tropare, from Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος, from Ancient Greek τροπή.
trouveur (English): A minstrel, a troubadour
Ancestry of “trouveur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | trouveur | A finder; discoverer; An inventor, creator |
| 2 | Middle French | trouveur | — |
| 3 | Middle French | trouver | to find |
| 4 | Old French | trover | to find |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | tropare | to compose; present active infinitive of *tropō |
| 6 | Latin | tropus | a figurative use of a word, a trope; a way of... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τρόπος | a turn, way, manner, style; a trope or figure of... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | τροπή | a turning; turning away the enemy, a rout;... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -ή | — |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | -ᾱ | nominal suffix |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |