trompe

See also: Trompe and trompé

English

Etymology

From French trompe. Doublet of trump and tulumba.

Noun

trompe (plural trompes)

1. (obsolete) A trumpet; a trump.
2. Alternative form of tromp (“blowing apparatus in a forge”)

Anagrams

• emptor, pro tem, pro tem.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrompe/

Adverb

trompe

1. deceptively

French

Etymology

From Middle French trompe, from Old French trompe, from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately from an imitative Germanic word akin to Old Dutch drumba, trumba (“trumpet, horn”), Old High German trumba, trumpa, Old Norse trumba. Doublet of trombe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ̃p/

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Noun

trompe f (plural trompes)

1. trumpet
2. trunk of an elephant
3. squinch

Derived terms

• trompe auditive
• trompe de chasse
• trompe de Fallope
• trompe d’Eustache

 

Descendants

• → Romanian: trompă

Verb

trompe

1. inflection of tromper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “trompe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• promet

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French trompe.

Noun

trompe

1. Alternative form of trumpe

Etymology 2

From Old French tromper.

Verb

trompe

1. Alternative form of trumpen