Where does “troçar” come from?

troçar (Portuguese) comes from Latin tortiare, from Latin tortus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

troçar (Portuguese): to mock, to ridicule

Definitions

  1. to mock, to ridicule

Ancestry of “troçar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintortiare—
2Latintortustwisted, crooked; spun, whirled; bent, distorted
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “troçar”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin tortus →