troppus

Latin

Borrowed from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *þruppaz, *þrubą (“cluster”).^[1]

troppus m (genitive troppī); second declension^[2]^[3]

Second declension.

Old French: trope, trupe
- Middle French: troupe
  - French: troupe (see there for further descendants)
Iberian:
- Aragonese: tropa
- Asturian: tropa
- Old Portuguese: tropa
  - Portuguese: tropa
  - Galician: tropa
- Spanish: tropa
Italian: truppa
Old Occitan: tropa
- Catalan: tropa
- Occitan: tropa
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *troppus (“too (much)”, adverb)
- Old French: trop, trope, tro
  - Middle French: trop
    - French: trop
  - Norman: trop
  - Picard: trôp, (Athois)
  - Walloon: trop (Forrières), trop (Liégeois)
- Old Occitan: trop, tro
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *troppellus
- Old French: tropel
  - Middle French: troupel, troupeau
    - French: troupeau
  - Picard: troupiaû, troupiô (Athois)
  - Walloon: troupia (Charleroi), tropê (Forrières)
  - → Middle English: tropel
    - English: tropel
- Old Occitan: tropel
  - Catalan: tropell
  - Occitan: tropèl
- Portuguese: tropel
- Spanish: tropel

↑ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*þruban-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 548
↑ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “troppus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (in Latin), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1046
↑ troppus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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