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Where does “trunca” come from?

trunca (Vulgar Latin) comes from Latin truncus, from Proto-Indo-European twerḱ- — to carve, cut off, trim.

trunca (Vulgar Latin): second-person singular present active imperative...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular present active imperative...

Ancestry of “trunca”, step by step

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

Words derived from “trunca”

  • tronche
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