trop

¹

[ troh ]

adverb

, French.

1. too; too much or too many.

trop-

²

1. variant of tropo- before a vowel:

   tropism.

trop.

³

abbreviation for

1. tropic.
2. tropical.

Example Sentences

I said, “La vie est trop courte.”

From Salon

The Trop, as the Rays’ current home is called, is criticized for being dank, outdated and having roof support beams that are sometimes hit by fly balls.

From Washington Times

The Trop, as the Rays current home is called, is criticized for being dank, outdated and having roof support beams that are sometimes hit by fly balls.

From Seattle Times

The Rays, who have played in the Trop since they first took the field in 1998 , are averaging 17,778 per game this season, 27th among the 30 big league teams.

From Washington Times

George Kirby just spoke with us here at the Trop.

From Seattle Times

Words That Use Trop-

What does trop- mean?

Trop- is a combining form used like a prefix variously meaning “turn,” “reaction, response,” or “change.” It is used in some technical terms.

Trop- ultimately comes from the Greek trópos, “turn,” and tropḗ, “a turning.” The Greek trópos is also the source of the words trope and tropical. It’s your turn to make the connection between “turning,” figures of speech, and the tropics at our entries for the words.

Trop– is a variant of tropo-, which loses its –o– when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels.

Want to know more? Read our Words That Use tropo– article. 

Corresponding forms of trop- and tropo- combined to the end of words are -trope, -tropic, -tropism, –tropous, and –tropy. Learn about their specific applications in our Words That Use articles for the forms.

Examples of trop-

An example of a scientific term that features the combining form trop- is tropism, “an orientation of an organism to an external stimulus, as light, especially by growth rather than by movement.”

The first part of the word, trop-, can indicate “reaction, response.” The second part of the word, -ism, can denote an “action or practice.” Tropism, then, literally translates to “act of reacting,” referring to how organisms that display tropism are responding to external stimuli.

What are some words that use or are related to the combining form trop-?

• esotropia
• exotropia
• hypertropia
• tropia

What are some other forms that tropo- may be commonly confused with?

• top-
• troph-

The French trop, meaning “too, too much, too many,” is entirely spelled with the same letters as trop-, but the two forms are unrelated.

Break it down!

Exotropia (exo-, “outside”) is a vision disorder condition where one or both eyes turn outward. Given that the combining form eso- means “inner,” what is esotropia?