'Retrieve' is Old French for 'find again' — from 'trouver' (to find). Cousin of 'troubadour.'
To get back or recover something; to bring something back, especially a hunted game animal.
From Old French "retrouver" (to find again), later reshaped as "retreuver" in Anglo-Norman, composed of the prefix "re-" (again, back) and "trouver" (to find). The origin of "trouver" is debated: the dominant theory traces it to Vulgar Latin *tropāre meaning "to compose, to invent" (originally "to speak in tropes"), from Latin "tropus" (a figure of speech), borrowed from Greek "tropos" (turn, way, manner), which derives from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (to turn). An alternative theory connects "trouver" to Late Latin *turbāre (to disturb, to stir
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