trunculus

== Latin == === Etymology === From truncus +‎ -ulus (diminutive suffix). === Noun === trunculus m (genitive trunculī); second declension a small piece cut off from the body; tip ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ French: tronculaire ⇒ Italian: tronculare Portuguese: troncho, tronchar Romanian: trunchi Spanish: troncho, tronchar === References === “trunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “trunculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.