| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | trep- |
| DEFINITION: | To turn. 1. –tropous; apotropaic, Atropos, treponema, from Greek trepein, to turn, with o-grade derivative tropos, turning. 2. O-grade form *trop-. a. Suffixed form *trop-o-. trope, troubadour, trover; contrive, retrieve, from Greek tropos, a turn, way, manner; b. suffixed form *trop- -. trophy, tropic, tropo-; entropy, from Greek trop , a turning, change. (Pokorny 2. trep- 1094.) |
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