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Where does “trompe” come from?
trompe (Middle French) comes from Old French trompe, from Frankish trumpa — trump, trumpet; trumpet.
Ancestry of “trompe”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old French
trompe
trump, trumpet; horn, trump, trumpet
2
Frankish
trumpa
trump, trumpet; trumpet
Words derived from “trompe”
spiral
spirally
trompe
spirometry
leptospirosis
Spirillum
spiro
spirometric
planispiral
spirogram
spiralbound
musculospiral
spiroketal
planispirally
spiralian
spirality
paucispiral
multispiral
nonspiral
spirula
spiralize
spirometrically
spiralization
spiralwise
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