Where does “truc” come from?
truc (Catalan) comes from Spanish truco, from French truc, from Middle French truc, from Old French trut, from Old Occitan truc, from Old Occitan trucar, from Vulgar Latin trudicare, from Latin trudere — to push, to thrust.
truc (Catalan): knock; call, ring; hit
Definitions
- knock; call, ring; hit
Ancestry of “truc”, step by step
truc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish truco
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | truco | trick, gimmick, ploy; trick; catch, gimmick |
| 2 | French | truc | procedure, technique; thingamajig, thingy, thing;... |
| 3 | Middle French | truc | trick; deception |
| 4 | Old French | trut | trick |
| 5 | Old Occitan | truc | hit; strike |
| 6 | Old Occitan | trucar | to hit; to strike |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | trudicare | — |
| 8 | Latin | trudere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | trudo | I thrust, push or shove |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | troudō | thrust |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | trewd- | to push, to thrust |
via Catalan trucar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | trucar | to knock, to ring; to call, to ring on the... |