Noun: tropa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | tropa |
| Plural f | tropas |
Sample Sentences
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a meu yrmaõ Jeronimo frde de ponteuedra, vn alcalde que foy da bila mesma, passando as tropas dos soldados, lle a feyto vma senjustiça tocandolle na onrra, que he coussa para a cassa de meu pay de moita estima (to my brother Xerónimo Fernández de Pontevedra, a later alderman of this same town while reviewing the soldiers' troops made him an injustice, touching him in his honor, which is a thing of great value for my father's house) [1603, Rosario Álvarez, edited by Ernesto González, Cartas a Conde de Gondomar:]
Nouns inflected like tropa
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since 1603. Ultimately from French troupe. See: French Nouns '
troupe'.
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