to find; to retrieve something lost, turn up something hidden, or encounter something previously unknown to one; to find (something to be the case); to think or consider (something to be so); to find oneself (at a place or in a situation); to be found, to be situated, to be; to be the case, to turn out (that)
“Quand est-ce qu'elle a trouvé les clés ?” — When did she find the keys?
Uncertain. Probably inherited from Old French trover, truver, from Vulgar Latin *tropāre (“to compose a poem”, > “to invent” > “to find”), from Latin tropus m (“figurative use of a word”); compare English trope. Alternatively from Latin turbō (“to disturb, perturb”) via the sense “to churn up water to drive fish into the net”, a widely-practiced method of fishing, this sense being attested in Sardinian turbare, trubare. This etymology may have phonological difficulties (namely 1) the lowering of