Tropan Definition

adjective

(obsolete, rare, of an air current) Blowing from sea to land.

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pronoun

(Greek and Roman antiquities, rare) An epithet of Jupiter and Zeus: turner to flight; he who puts to flight.

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Origin of Tropan

  • A suffixation with -an of the Latin adjective tropae(us) (“turning back”, “returning”); in the Plinian phrase ventī tropaeī (“winds blowing from the sea towards the land”, “sea-breezes”), from the Ancient Greek adjective τροπαῖος (tropaios) (also used in the noun phrase πνοή (pnoē) τροπαία (pnoē tropaia, “an alternating wind, blowing back from sea to land”)), from τρόπος (tropos, “turning”).

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Words Starting With

TTRTRO

Words Ending With

NANPAN

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tropan

Words Starting With T and Ending With N

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With T6 Letter Words Ending With N