Etymograph

English

hemitrope

From hemi- + -trope.

Formed from hemi + trope

Proto-Indo-European *trep- ‘to turn’

Ancient Greek τρέπω ‘turn, divert, turn back, rout an enemy’

Ancient Greek τρόπος ‘a manner, style, turn, way’

Latin tropus ‘a figurative use of a word, a trope’

English trope

Today it means

adj Half turned round; half inverted; (crystallography) having a twinned structure.

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