![]() ![]() The Wise may have good reason to believe that the halfling’s trove is indeed the Great Ring of long debate, unlikely though that may seem to those who know less. Shortly afterwards, this well-known example appeared: When in 1950 Leonard Gribble published an anthology of tales for children under the title Story Trove, it clearly wasn’t regarded as hopelessly bad English. The Brass Bowl, by Louis Joseph Vance, 1907.īy the 1920s it was moderately common, though still not recognised by the linguistic authorities. His breath came hot and fast as he gazed upon the trove a queen’s ransom, a fortune incalculable even to its owner. Plain Tales from the Hills, by Rudyard Kipling, 1888. The value of her trove struck her, and she cast about for the best method of using it. People started to use trove by itself to mean a hoard or a valuable find at least as far back as the 1880s: Careful users of English, and the Guardian style guide, seem to be correct when they say that trove has no independent existence.Īt least, until we start to look at the evidence. Treasure-trove follows a pattern of compound terms derived from French in which the adjective follows the noun others are governor-general, poet laureate, court-martial, heir apparent, letter patent and knight errant. Since the concept was a legal one, this form ousted the other one. Legal English, with its liking for old French terms, preferred to turn it into English in a different way a legal textbook of 1567 explained that valuable abandoned property belonged to the queen and was called treasure-trove. This was gradually Anglicised into treasure found. After the Norman Conquest it existed alongside the Anglo-Norman tresor trové. The Latin thesaurus inventus continued to be used until the end of the medieval period. And Latin inventus could as much mean discovered as invented. But thesaurus in Latin could mean a treasury and the concept of a book being a storehouse of knowledge has led to the word being used in English at least since the sixteenth century. ![]() The Latin was thesaurus inventus, which strikes modern non-Latinists as peculiar, since for us a thesaurus is a special form of dictionary, while to invent is to create something new. The idea that valuables that had been abandoned or hidden by persons unknown could be claimed by the state goes back at least to Roman times. They asserted, and the Guardian’s style guide agrees, that trove may not be used on its own, but must always form part of the compound noun treasure-trove. An item in the Corrections and Clarifications column on Monday 2 March reported that grammar pedants (tactfully described there as “linguistic purists”) had been upset at the use of the phrase Snowden trove for the thousands of documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Send us feedback.The Guardian was a minor treasure-trove in early March 2015 for enquirers into matters of English language. ![]() These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'trover.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2020 King was charged with first-degree larceny, second-degree criminal trover, and operating a motor vehicle without the owner’s permission, police said. 2021 Aaron Rugar, 26, faces charges including carjacking, third-degree larceny, second-degree assault and second-degree criminal trover, among others, Hartford police said. 2021 Tavaj Shakur Daley, 18, Trayvin Jordan Prude, 19, and Nnamdi Smart Huchinson, 19, were arrested with second degree larceny, second degree criminal trover and a count of interfering with police. 2021 He is charged with first-degree burglary, third-degree burglary, second-degree larceny, sixth-degree larceny and criminal trover. 2022 The two men, both 18, are charged with second-degree larceny and second-degree trover, among other charges. Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2022 The teen was charged with first-degree larceny, third-degree burglary, first-degree criminal trover and operating a motor vehicle without a license. Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 27 Nov. 2023 He is charged with third-degree criminal mischief, third-degree burglary, second-degree criminal larceny and criminal trover, police said. Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. Recent Examples on the Web Kaleem Ulthmaan of Hamden was arrested and charged with second-degree conspiracy to commit larceny, second-degree criminal trover and interfering with police. ![]()
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