trompe

From French trompe. Doublet of trump and tulumba.

trompe (plural trompes)

1. (obsolete) A trumpet; a trump.
2. Alternative form of tromp (“blowing apparatus in a forge”)

• emptor, pro tem, pro tem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrompe/

trompe

1. deceptively

From Middle French trompe, from Old French trompe, from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately from an imitative Germanic word akin to Old Dutch drumba, trumba (“trumpet, horn”), Old High German trumba, trumpa, Old Norse trumba. Doublet of trombe.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ̃p/

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trompe f (plural trompes)

1. trumpet
2. trunk of an elephant
3. squinch

• → Romanian: trompă

trompe

1. inflection of tromper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “trompe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• promet

From Old French trompe.

trompe

1. Alternative form of trumpe

From Old French tromper.

trompe

1. Alternative form of trumpen