trover

English

Etymology

Nominal use of Old French trover (“to find”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɹəʊvə/

Noun

trover (countable and uncountable, plural trovers)

  1. (law) Taking possession of personal property which has been found.
    • 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis:
      How did he like it when the live creatures
      Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,
      And worm, slug, eft, with serious features
      Came in, each one, for his right of trover?
  2. (law) A legal action brought to recover such property by its original owner.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 431:
      The pocket-book was a late present from Mrs Western […] . A prudent person […] would not have offered more than a shilling, or perhaps sixpence, for it; nay, some perhaps would have given nothing, and left the fellow to his action of trover, which some learned serjeants may doubt whether he could, under these circumstances, have maintained.
    • 1792, Richard Burns, John Burns, “Trover”, in A New Law Dictionary, volume II:
      By a fiction of law, actions of trover are now permittedto be brought against any person who hath got into his possession by any means whatsoever the goods of another, and sold them or used them without the consent of the owner, or refused to deliver them when demanded.

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *tropāre. Attested in the Alexis.[1] Compare Old Occitan trobar.

Verb

trover

  1. to find

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem truev distinct from the unstressed stem trov, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of trover (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive trover avoir trové
gerund en trovant gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle trovant
past participle trové
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses		 present truis trueves trueve trovons trovez truevent
imperfect trovoie, troveie, trovoe, troveve trovoies, troveies, trovoes, troveves trovoit, troveit, trovot, troveve troviiens, troviens troviiez, troviez trovoient, troveient, trovoent, trovevent
preterite trovai trovas trova trovames trovastes troverent
future troverai troveras trovera troverons troveroiz, trovereiz, troverez troveront
conditional troveroie, trovereie troveroies, trovereies troveroit, trovereit troveriiens, troveriens troveriiez, troveriez troveroient, trovereient
compound
tenses		 present perfect present tense of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
past anterior preterite tense of avoir + past participle
future perfect future tense of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses		 present truisse truisses truisse, truist trovons, truissiens, truissons trovez, truissiez truissent
imperfect trovasse trovasses trovast trovissons, trovissiens trovissoiz, trovissez, trovissiez trovassent
compound
tenses		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— truisse — trovons trovez —

Descendants
  • Bourguignon: trovai
  • Gallo: terouer
  • Middle French: trouver
  • Norman: trouver, trouvaer
  • Picard: truvoèr
  • Walloon: trover
  • → English: trover

References
  1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*tropare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 13: To–Tyrus, page 319
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