English

tropify

From trope + -ify.

Formed from trope + -ify

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

verb To make a trope.

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