/ˈtɾɔpa/, [ˈt̪ɾɔ.pɐ]
OriginAttested since 1603. Ultimately from French troupe.
- femininetroop, crowd
- femininearmy, troop
“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 moi” — 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 valu
- feminineherd
Formstropas(plural)