Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To use, or embellish something with, a trope. · To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif. · To turn into, coin, or create a new trope. · To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.
From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a manner, style, turn, way; a trope or figure of speech; a mode in music; a mode or mood in logic”), related to τροπή (tropḗ, “solstice; trope; turn”) and τρέπειν (trépein, “to turn”); compare turn of phrase. The verb is derived from the noun.
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