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From Latintropus (English trope) +-ism, from Ancient Greekτρόπος(trópos, “a turn, way, manner, style, a trope or figure of speech, a mode in music, a mode or mood in logic”), from τροπή(tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). Early use in botany as geotropism and heliotropism.