Etymology

troubadour

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Today it means: An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel. Full definition →

Old Occitan trobar ← Old French troubadour
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  1. Old French · derived fromtroubadour
  2. Old Occitan · derived fromtrobar“to find”
  3. English todaytroubadour

From Old Occitan trobar (“to find”) via Old French troubadour. Piecewise doublet of trouveur.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.