![]() Register for the Daily Good Word E-Mail! - You can get our daily Good Word sent directly to you via e-mail in either HTML or Text format. This would make trove a distant cousin of troubadour, the roving minstrels of France, Italy, and Spain in the 12th and 13th centuries. The Latin word was borrowed from Greek tropos "turn (of phrase), figure (of speech)". If so, it goes back to Latin tropus, from which our word trope "figure of speech" derives. It seems to have originated in an Old Provençal word trobar "to compose, invent", which could be stretched to "to find" (see Latin inventus above). (In the Middle Ages it belonged to the prince who owned the land.) Where the French word for "find" ( trouver today) comes from is a bit fuzzy. Word History: The phrase that Middle English borrowed from Old French was tresor trové "found treasure", the equivalent of Latin thesaurus inventus, a legal term speaking to the rights of ownership of money found buried in the earth. In Play: Because it is a reduction of treasure trove, this word has taken over the meaning of the phrase: "The children went to bed dreaming of a trove of gifts and toys under the tree on Christmas morning." Not only will they probably find it, but, hopefully, they will have the opportunity to share it with a trove of friends and relatives. For that reason, it has not had time to propagate and, hence, has only one related form, the plural, troves. This word is a shortening of that phrase that emerged only at the end of the 19th century. Notes: If you associate this Good Word with the phrase treasure trove, you are right on target. A collection of valuables found somewhere or simply a great find. (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)Meaning: 1. (Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)īe that as it might, I seemed to see that woman’s figure still clutching at her treasure trove and flying wildly up the winding stair, with her ears ringing perhaps with the muffled screams from behind her and with the drumming of frenzied hands against the slab of stone which was choking her faithless lover’s life out. Sheldon says it's the latest and greatest in machine learning to extract bird data from the radar record and to take advantage of the treasure trove of bird migration information in the decades-long radar data archives. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) “By Jove, Peterson!” said he, “this is treasure trove indeed. (Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission, NASA) ![]() (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)Īn international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission. They had just found a great treasure- trove. We found 26 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word trove: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where. ![]() He made another discovery of treasure- trove in the library. (NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA) (WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)Īs expected, all these data suggest a trove of water ice throughout the Martian poles and mid-latitudes. The heavyweight planet, which has the mass of 10 Jupiters, has been observed repeatedly, allowing astronomers to accumulate a relatively large trove of data.
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