tronc

From French tronc des pauvres (“poor box”).

tronc (plural troncs)

1. (British) A monetary pool, in which tips are collected and later shared out between all staff, e.g. in a restaurant.

• troncmaster

• NROTC, contr, contr.

Inherited from Latin truncus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɾoŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɾoŋk]

tronc m (plural troncs)

1. trunk, stem, branch
2. log
3. (architecture) shaft
4. (anatomy) trunk, torso
5. (geometry) frustrum
6. (genealogy) main branch
7. (linguistics) branch
8. (transport) team (pair of animals)
9. (castells) the central vertical part of a castell directly atop the baixos, as opposed to the various levels of the pinya

• (stem): tija
• (shaft of a column): fust
• (branch of descent): embrancament
• (main branch of a family): línia troncal

• truncar

• “tronc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Latin truncus.

tronc

1. trunk

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Inherited from Latin truncus.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ̃/

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tronc m (plural troncs)

1. (anatomy) trunk
2. (botany) trunk, bole (of a tree)

• tronc cérébral

• “tronc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin truncus.

tronc m (plural troncs)

1. trunk (of a tree)

Onomatopoeic.

tronc

1. thump