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Where does “truccabile” come from?

truccabile (Italian) comes from Italian truccare, 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 — to push, to thrust.

truccabile (Italian): That can be rigged, loaded or fixed

Definitions

  1. That can be rigged, loaded or fixed

Ancestry of “truccabile”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantruccareto fix or rig; to change the appearance or...
2Frenchtruquerto tamper with, to fiddle, to falsify; to trick;...
3Frenchtrucprocedure, technique; thingamajig, thingy, thing;...
4Middle Frenchtruc—
5Old Frenchtrut—
6Old Occitantruc—
7Old Occitantrucar—
8Vulgar Latintrudicare—
9Latintruderesecond-person singular future passive indicative...
10LatintrudoI thrust, push or shove
11Proto-Italictroudōthrust
12Proto-Indo-Europeantrewd-to push, to thrust
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