tropicus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of a turn; of the solstice; of a trope”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtro.pi.kus/, [ˈt̪rɔpɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtro.pi.kus/, [ˈt̪rɔːpikus]
Adjective
tropicus (feminine tropica, neuter tropicum); first/second-declension adjective
- relating to a turning, to change; (Medieval Latin) changeable
- (rhetoric) relating to tropes; figurative, metaphorical
- (relational) solstice, equinox
- (transferred sense) tropical
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | tropicus | tropica | tropicum | tropicī | tropicae | tropica | |
| Genitive | tropicī | tropicae | tropicī | tropicōrum | tropicārum | tropicōrum | |
| Dative | tropicō | tropicō | tropicīs | ||||
| Accusative | tropicum | tropicam | tropicum | tropicōs | tropicās | tropica | |
| Ablative | tropicō | tropicā | tropicō | tropicīs | |||
| Vocative | tropice | tropica | tropicum | tropicī | tropicae | tropica | |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “tropicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tropicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tropicus” on page 1981/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “tropicus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
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