Where does “truccare” come from?
truccare (Italian) 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.
truccare (Italian): to fix or rig; to change the appearance or...
Definitions
- to fix or rig; to change the appearance or...
Ancestry of “truccare”, step by step
truccare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French truquer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | truquer | to tamper with, to fiddle, to falsify; to trick;... |
| 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 |