^* This turning, this tropikos, meaning “turn” or “belonging to a turn,” also comes to mean “figure of speech” in Greek tropos and Latin tropus. Another series of permutations places this business of troping firmly in the hands of poets : late Latin tropare, “to versify,” becomes trovare in Italian, trovar in Spanish, trouver in French : “to find, devise, invent or make up poetry.” The Provençal form, trobar, gives us the agent, troubador.