Where does “truncar” come from?

truncar (Portuguese) comes from Latin truncāre, from Latin truncus, from Proto-Indo-European twerḱ- — to carve, cut off, trim.

truncar (Portuguese): to truncate

Definitions

  1. to truncate

Ancestry of “truncar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintruncāre—
2Latintruncuslopped, docked; maimed, mangled, mutilated; A...
3Proto-Indo-Europeantwerḱ-to carve, cut off, trim
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