"trouveur" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /tʁu.vœʁ/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-trouveur.wav Forms: trouveurs [plural], trouveuse [feminine]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle French trouveur, 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 French troubadour, which was taken from Old Occitan. Etymology templates: {{root|fr|ine-pro|*trep-}}, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|trouveur|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French trouveur, {{inh+|fr|frm|trouveur}} Inherited from Middle French trouveur, {{af|fr|trouver|-eur|gloss1=to find, invent}} trouver (“to find, invent”) + -eur, {{inh|fr|fro|troveor}} Old French troveor, {{inh|fr|VL.||*tropatōre(m)}} Vulgar Latin *tropatōre(m), {{inh|fr|la|tropus}} Latin tropus, {{cog|oc|trobador}} Occitan trobador, {{doublet|fr|troubadour|notext=1}} troubadour Head templates: {{fr-noun|m|f=+}} trouveur m (plural trouveurs, feminine trouveuse)
  1. a finder; discoverer Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-trouveur-fr-noun-20ype7ip
  2. an inventor, creator Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-trouveur-fr-noun-jLsMSonZ Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French terms suffixed with -eur Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 27 73 Disambiguation of French terms suffixed with -eur: 24 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: trouvable [adjective], trouvaille, trouvé [adjective], trouver, trouvère [masculine]

Inflected forms

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