troupeau

French

noun
Definitions
  • herd (of horses, bulls, elephants, buffalo etc.)
  • drove (of animals being transported)
  • flock (of sheep); gaggle (of geese)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin troppus inherited from Old French *trop (crowd, group) derived from Frankish *thorp (agglomeration, a cluster, village, gathering, also collection of houses, assembly).

Origin

Frankish

*thorp

Gloss

agglomeration, a cluster, village, gathering, also collection of houses, assembly

Concept
Semantic Field

Social and political relations

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

Emoji

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