troth
/tɹoʊθ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname transferred from the nickname.
Example Sentences
- "By my troth I care not, a man can die but once, we owe God a death, [...]"
- "And by my faith and troth I have a good part of a mind to have thee beaten for thine insolence!"
- "Hagen of Troneg now foully broke his troth to Siegfried."
- "...I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth;..."
- "It follows, as a natural consequence, that the two who stood alone in the new faith, [...] should, finally, make mutual confession of the passion that had surprised both, in the early pride of man and womanhood; should exchange rings, and plight troths where the pleasaunce joined the river, as young lovers do still probably exchange rings and plight troths, by the old Cheshire river."
- "Vendemer’s sole fortune is his genius, and he and Paule, who confessed to an answering flame, plighted their troth like a pair of young rustics or (what comes for French people to the same thing) young Anglo-Saxons."
Etymology
From Middle English troth, trothe, trouthe, trowthe, a variant of treuth, treuthe, treouthe (“allegiance, fidelity, faithfulness, loyalty; oath, pledge, promise; betrothal or marriage vow; betrothal; honour, integrity; holiness, righteousness; confidence, trust; creed, faith; fact, reality, truth”), from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity; faith, fidelity; covenant, pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“contract; promise”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of truth.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹoʊθ/
- British English: /tɹəʊθ/