Where does “trucho” come from?
trucho (Spanish) comes from Italian trucco, 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 — to push, to thrust.
trucho (Spanish): fake, counterfeit, inauthentic
Definitions
- fake, counterfeit, inauthentic
Ancestry of “trucho”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | trucco | makeup; trick, sham; effect |
| 2 | Italian | truccare | to fix or rig; to change the appearance or... |
| 3 | French | truquer | to tamper with, to fiddle, to falsify; to trick;... |
| 4 | French | truc | procedure, technique; thingamajig, thingy, thing;... |
| 5 | Middle French | truc | trick; deception |
| 6 | Old French | trut | trick |
| 7 | Old Occitan | truc | hit; strike |
| 8 | Old Occitan | trucar | to hit; to strike |
| 9 | Vulgar Latin | trudicare | — |
| 10 | Latin | trudere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 11 | Latin | trudo | I thrust, push or shove |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | troudō | thrust |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | trewd- | to push, to thrust |