troubadour
common noun
Syllable Decomposition
troubadourA doublet of the trouvère of the langue d'oïl, from the Old Occitan trobador (poet, the one who finds rhymes), derived from trobar ("to compose rhymes, to find") probably from the Vulgar Latin tropare ("to compose, to invent a tune", then "to compose a poem", then "to invent, to discover"), derived from tropus ("figure of speech" see trope).
Definition
- histoirepoésie
Feminine
trobairitztroubadouresse
Plural
troubadours
Translations
english:troubadour
spanish:trovador
greek:τροβαδούρος
italian:trovatore
polish:trubadur
portuguese:trovador
See also
troubadourisme (cn.) troubadouresque (adj.)