tropique

common nounadjective

Syllable Decomposition

tropique

from Latin tropicus (relating to or belonging to the solstice; as a noun, one of the tropics), from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós), derived from τροπή, tropē ('a turn, solstice, trope'). See trope.

Definitions

géographie
astronomie

Plural

tropiques

Translations

  • germangerman:wendekreis
  • englishenglish:tropic
  • chinesechinese:回归线
  • koreankorean:회귀선
  • danishdanish:vendekreds
  • spanishspanish:trópico
  • italianitalian:tropico
  • japanesejapanese:回帰線
  • dutchdutch:keerkring
  • polishpolish:zwrotnik
  • portugueseportuguese:trópico

See also

tropaire (cn.) tropiste (cn.) tropicaliser (v.) tropicaliste (adj.) tropicalisme (cn.) tropical (adj.) tropiques (adj.) tropicalité (cn.) tropicalisation (cn.) trope (cn.) tropique (adj.)