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"expansion": "troubadour",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From trouver (“to find, invent”) + -eur. Or from Old French troveor (objective/accusative case), itself from the verb trover + -eor, or possibly corresponding to a Gallo-Vulgar Latin *tropatōre(m), accusative of *tropātor, from the verb *tropō, tropāre, from Latin tropus. Cognate to Occitan trobador. See also Modern French troubadour, which was taken from Old Occitan.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "trouveurs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "trouveresse",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "trouveresses",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "frm",
"10": "trouveresse",
"11": "feminine plural",
"12": "trouveresses",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "trouveurs",
"7": "",
"8": "{{{pl2}}}",
"9": "feminine singular",
"f1accel-form": "p",
"g": "m",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "trouveur m (plural trouveurs, feminine singular trouveresse, feminine plural trouveresses)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"f": "trouveresse"
},
"expansion": "trouveur m (plural trouveurs, feminine singular trouveresse, feminine plural trouveresses)",
"name": "frm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle French",
"lang_code": "frm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"finder, discoverer"
],
"links": [
[
"finder",
"finder"
],
[
"discoverer",
"discoverer"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"inventor, creator"
],
"links": [
[
"inventor",
"inventor"
],
[
"creator",
"creator"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/tʁu.vœʁ/"
}
],
"word": "trouveur"
}
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