trope
英 [tr??p]
美 [trop]
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1. 希臘根詞 trope "turn" (轉向，轉動) => trope.
2. 同源詞：trophy, trope, tropic, tropics.
中文詞源
trope 轉義詞語，比喻詞語來自拉丁語 tropus,轉義，比喻，來自希臘語 tropos,轉向，旋轉，比喻說法，來自 trope,轉向， 旋轉，來自 PIE*trep,轉，來自 PIE*ter,轉，詞源同 turn,tropic.引申諸相關詞義。
英文詞源
- trope
- trope: see troubadour
- trope (n.)
- 1530s, from Latin tropus "a figure of speech," from Greek tropos "a turn, direction, course, way; manner, fashion," in rhetoric, "turn or figure of speech," related to trope "a turning" and trepein "to turn," from PIE root trep- (2) "to turn" (cognates: Sanskrit trapate "is ashamed, confused," properly "turns away in shame;" Latin trepit "he turns"). Technically, in rhetoric, "a figure of speech which consists in the use of a word or phrase in a sense other than that which is proper to it" [OED], "as when we call a stupid fellow an ass, or a shrewd man a fox" [Century Dictionary].