English

Noun

trouvère ‎(plural trouvères)

1. A medieval lyric poet using the Northern langue d’oïl (precursor dialects of modern French), as opposed to their older, southern example, the original troubadours, who used langue d’oc (Occitan)

Related terms

• troubadour m

Translations

Anagrams

• overture

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowing from French trouvère.

Noun

trouvère m ‎(plural trouvères, diminutive trouvèretje n)

1. A trouvère

Related terms

• troubadour m

French

Etymology

Middle French trouvere, from Old French troveor, from trover ‎(“to find”) + -eor (agent noun suffix). Cognate with Old Provençal (and Modern Occitan and Catalan) trobador, from the verb trobar ‎(“to find”).

Noun

trouvère m ‎(plural trouvères)

1. A trouvère, medieval lyric poet using the Northern langue d'oïl (precursor dialects of modern French), as opposed to their older, southern example, the original troubadours, who used langue d'oc (Occitan)

Related terms

• troubadour m
• trouvable, introuvable
• trouvaille
• trouveur m

Anagrams

• retrouve, retrouvé
• rouverte