Where does “trovar” come from?

trovar (Spanish) comes from Old Spanish trobar, 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.

trovar (Spanish): to versify, write poetry; to misconstrue

Definitions

  1. to versify, write poetry; to misconstrue

Ancestry of “trovar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Spanishtrobarto find
2Old Occitantrobarto find
3Vulgar Latintropareto compose; present active infinitive of *tropō
4Latintropusa figurative use of a word, a trope; a way of...
5Ancient Greekτρόποςa turn, way, manner, style; a trope or figure of...
6Ancient Greekτροπήa turning; turning away the enemy, a rout;...
7Ancient Greeksuffix of feminine nouns in the [[Appendix:Ancient Greek first declension
8Ancient Greek-ᾱnominal suffix
9Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

Words derived from “trovar

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂Every word from Ancient Greek Every word from Ancient Greek τροπή
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