Where does “runcitruncation” come from?
runcitruncation (English) comes from English truncation, from Late Latin truncatio, from Latin truncāre, from Latin truncus, from Proto-Indo-European twerḱ- — to carve, cut off, trim.
runcitruncation (English): The simultaneous state of runcination and truncation
Definitions
- The simultaneous state of runcination and truncation
Ancestry of “runcitruncation”, step by step
runcitruncation traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English truncation
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | truncation | The act of truncating or shortening; The removal... |
| 2 | Late Latin | truncatio | maiming, mutilating; truncation |
| 3 | Latin | truncāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | truncus | lopped, docked; maimed, mangled, mutilated; A... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | twerḱ- | to carve, cut off, trim |
via English runcination
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | runcination | An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its faces, its edges and its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each face, each edge and each vertex |
| 2 | Latin | runcina | plane |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | ῥυκάνη | plane, a tool for smoothing wood |