tronco

== Galician == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin truncus (“trunk”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtɾoŋko/ [ˈt̪ɾoŋ.kʊ] Rhymes: -oŋko Hyphenation: tron‧co === Noun === tronco m (plural troncos) trunk (of a tree) stalk of a vine Synonyms: cepa, pé stalk of a cabbage Synonyms: cañoto, couceiro torso main line of a lineage 1409, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 113: se aquel que eſta herança ouuer de auer for sandeu ou deſtruydor de seus bẽes, que se torne ao outro do tronco a que perteeſçeu if the one who this heirloom would have is foolish or a destroyer of his goods, then it must be turned to another one of the main line to which it belonged ==== Related terms ==== === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “tronco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “tronco”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tronco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tronco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tronco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtron.ko/ Rhymes: -onko Hyphenation: trón‧co === Etymology 1 === From Latin truncus. ==== Adjective ==== tronco (feminine tronca, masculine plural tronchi, feminine plural tronche) truncated cut off, mutilated Synonyms: mozzato, mutilato broken, incomplete Synonyms: interrotto, incompleto ===== Derived terms ===== in tronco troncamente ==== Noun ==== tronco m (plural tronchi) (botany) trunk, log Synonym: fusto (anatomy) trunk, torso Synonym: fusto (figurative) section, branch Synonyms: tratto, diramazione ===== Derived terms ===== troncone === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== tronco first-person singular present indicative of troncare === Anagrams === contro, contro-, contrò == Portuguese == === Etymology === Inherited from Latin truncus (“tree trunk; trunk of a human; cut-off piece”). === Pronunciation === Homophone: Tronco Hyphenation: tron‧co === Noun === tronco m (plural troncos) (botany) tree trunk Synonyms: caule, estipe, haste (anatomy) trunk; torso Synonym: torso in a tree structure, a major branch from which smaller branches stem Synonym: talo (linguistics) a language family which is not a subfamily (that is, the topmost family of a language family tree) (geometry) frustum (the portion of a solid hat lies between two parallel planes) stocks (type of device for public humiliation and punishment) Synonym: (Brazil) vira-mundo (historical, colonial Brazil) a post where slaves were tied to be flogged prison, jail Synonyms: cadeia, prisão, cárcere ==== Related terms ==== troncho truncado truncar ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: tronkAfrikaans: tronk→ English: tronk→ Kwanyama: ondolonggo → Gujarati: તુરંગ (turaṅg) → Kannada: ತುರಂಗ (turaṅga) → Malayalam: തുറുങ്ക് (tuṟuṅkŭ) → Marathi: तुरुंग (turuṅga) === Further reading === tronco on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt “tronco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “tronco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 === Anagrams === cróton == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtɾonko/ [ˈt̪ɾõŋ.ko] Rhymes: -onko Syllabification: tron‧co === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Latin truncus. Cognate with English trunk, Italian tronco, Portuguese tronco. ==== Noun ==== tronco m (plural troncos) trunk (tree trunk) trunk (main channel) tronco braquiocefálico ― brachiocephalic artery torso Synonym: torso frustum team (of mules, etc.) Synonym: tiro ===== Derived terms ===== ==== Noun ==== tronco m (plural troncos, feminine tronca, feminine plural troncas) (colloquial, Spain) guy, dude Synonym: tron === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== tronco first-person singular present indicative of troncar === Further reading === “tronco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025