troupe
English
/tɹuːp/
noun
Definitions
- A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.
- Any group of people working together on a shared activity.
Etymology
Borrowed from French troupe root from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (settlement, dwelling, room, wooden beam).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*treb-
Gloss
settlement, dwelling, room, wooden beam
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
室, 房
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- troop English
- trooper English
- trouper English
- taberna Latin
- trabem Latin
- trabs Latin
- Trupp German
- Truppe German
- troupe Italian
- truppa Italian
- troupe French
- troupier French
- tropa Spanish, Castilian
- troupe Spanish, Castilian
- *trab- Proto-Indo-European
- *treb- Proto-Indo-European
- tropa Portuguese
- *þurpą Proto-Germanic
- trupa Polish
- trobo Galician
- tropa Galician
- trevë Albanian
- trouppe Middle French
- *ad-treb-a-t-es Proto-Celtic
- *ad-treb-a-t-es, *attrebass Proto-Celtic
- *attrebā Proto-Celtic
- *trebā Proto-Celtic
- *thorp Frankish