Where does “trucage” come from?
trucage (French) comes from French truquer, 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.
trucage (French): rigging, doctoring; special effects
Definitions
- rigging, doctoring; special effects
Ancestry of “trucage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | truquer | to tamper with, to fiddle, to falsify; to trick;... |
| 2 | French | truc | procedure, technique; thingamajig, thingy, thing;... |
| 3 | Middle French | truc | — |
| 4 | Old French | trut | — |
| 5 | Old Occitan | truc | — |
| 6 | Old Occitan | trucar | — |
| 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 |