troth means A surname transferred from the nickname. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 77 out of 100.
troth is pronounced /tɹəʊθ/.
Etymology
From troth, a nickname for someone who was inclined to take oaths.
name
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
noun
- An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.“By my troth I care not, a man can die but once, we owe God a death, [...]”
- An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.; A pledge or promise to marry someone.“...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;...”
- An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.; The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement.“I did, therefore, what an honest man should; restored the maiden her troth, and departed the country, in the service of my king.”
- Truth; something true.“[John] Martiall, much like to Virgil's Sinon, (of whom he took a precedent, to make an artificial lie,) for three leaves together, in his preface, telleth undoubted trothes; to the end that the falsehoods, which, foolishly, (God wot,) he doth infer, may have the more credit.”
verb
- To pledge to marry somebody.