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-trope

-trope suffix: something that turns, affects, changes, responds, moves.

Suffix

-trope

  1. something that turns, affects, changes, responds, moves.

Origin of -trope

From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a turn, way, manner, style, a trope or figure of speech, a mode in music, a mode or mood in logic”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). See trope.

Questions about -trope

What does -trope mean?
-trope means something that turns, affects, changes, responds, moves.
What part of speech is -trope?
-trope is a suffix.

Words near -trope in the dictionary

  1. -troch
  2. -tron
  3. -tronics
  4. -trons
  5. -trop-
  6. -trope
  7. -troph
  8. -trophic
  9. -trophism
  10. -trophy
  11. -tropia

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