troppo

¹

[trop-oh, trawp-paw]

adverb

Music.

1. too much; excessively.

troppo

²

[trop-oh]

adjective

Australian Slang.

1. mentally disturbed.

troppo

¹

/ ˈtrɒpəʊ /

adverb

1. music too much; excessively See non troppo

troppo

²

/ ˈtrɒpəʊ /

adjective

1. slang,  mentally affected by a tropical climate

Word History and Origins

Origin of troppo¹

From Italian; Old Italian dialect: “much, very,” probably from Old Provençal trop originally, “herd, flock”; troop

Origin of troppo²

First recorded in 1940–45; trop(ic) + -o, originally in reference to the supposed psychological effects of life in tropical climates, especially in military service

Word History and Origins

Origin of troppo¹

Italian

Example Sentences

Io non so s’i’ mi fui qui troppo folle, ch’i’ pur rispuosi lui a questo metro: “Deh, or mi dì: quanto tesoro volle Nostro Segnore in prima da san Pietro ch’ei ponesse le chiavi in sua balìa? Certo non chiese se non “Viemmi retro.”

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Italians might agree that the touch is “un po troppo”; you can use it or lose it.

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Born into genteel poverty, Camillo was made a cardinal by his distant relative, Pope Innocent X — whom Velázquez had also painted, and who reacted to his own portrait with the notorious exclamation “Troppo vero”: “too real.”

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Vuole dare il proprio legittimo contributo alle comunità locali e alla più vasta società, e beneficiare delle risorse e dello sviluppo troppo spesso riservati a pochi.

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But there were also moments of great delicacy, as with the evanescent pizzicatos at the end of the symphony’s Vivace non troppo movement, a quintessential Mendelssohn scherzo in all but name.

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