τρόπος
Alt. τρόπος, ὁ,
Etym. τρέπω
I. "a turn, direction, course, way", Hdt.
II. "a way, manner, fashion", τρόπῳ τοιῷδε in such "wise", Hdt.; τίνι τρόπῳ; Lat. quomodo? how? Aesch., etc.; ποίῳ τρ.; id=Aesch.; ἑνί γε τῷ τρ. in one "way" or other, Ar.; παντὶ τρόπῳ by all "means", Aesch.; οὐδενὶ τρ., μηδενὶ τρ. "in no wise, by no means, on no account", Hdt., etc.:—so in pl., τρόποισι ποίοις; Soph.; ναυκλήρου τρόποις id=Soph.
2. absol. in acc., τίνα τρόπον; "how?" Ar.; τρ. τινά "in a manner", Eur.; οὐδένα, μηδένα τρ. Xen.; πίτυος τρόπον "after the manner" of a pine, Hdt.; in pl., κεχώρισται τοὺς τρόπους "in its ways", id=Hdt.; πάντας τρόπους in all "ways", Plat.
3. with Preps., γυναικὸς ἐν τρόποις, ἐν τρ. Ἰξίονος Aesch.:— ἐς ὄρνιθος τρ. Luc.; κατὰ πάντα τρ. Ar., etc.; κατὰ πάντας τρόπους id=Ar.:— κατὰ τρόπον, absol., "fitly, duly", Lat. rite, Isocr.
III. of persons, "a way of life, habit, custom", Pind.; μῶν ἡλιαστά; Answ. μἀλλὰ θατέρου τρ. are you a Heliast?—No, but of the other "sort", Ar.:—a man's "character, temper", τρόπου ἡσυχίου of a quiet "temper", Hdt.; οὐ τοὐμοῦ τρόπου not to my "taste", Ar.; πρὸς τοῦ Κύρου τρόπου Xen.; so in pl. "ways, habits", σκληρὸς τοὺς τρόπους Ar.; ὑπηρετεῖν τοῖς τρόποις τινός id=Ar.
IV. in Music, τρ. Λύδιος Pind.; ᾠδῆς τρόπος Plat.
V. in speaking or writing, "manner, style", Isocr.:—but in Rhetoric, "tropes, figures", Cic.