tronco

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin truncus (“trunk”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾoŋko/ [ˈt̪ɾoŋ.kʊ]
• Rhymes: -oŋko
• Hyphenation: tron‧co

tronco m (plural troncos)

1. trunk (of a tree)
2. stalk of a vine

   Synonyms: cepa, pé

3. stalk of a cabbage

   Synonyms: cañoto, couceiro

4. torso
5. 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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tronco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tronco”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtron.ko/
• Rhymes: -onko
• Hyphenation: trón‧co

From Latin truncus.

tronco (feminine tronca, masculine plural tronchi, feminine plural tronche)

1. truncated

   parole tronche

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. cut off, mutilated

   Synonyms: mozzato, mutilato

3. broken, incomplete

   Synonyms: interrotto, incompleto

• in tronco
• troncamente

tronco m (plural tronchi)

1. (botany) trunk, log

   Synonym: fusto

2. (anatomy) trunk, torso

   Synonym: fusto

3. (figurative) section, branch

   Synonyms: tratto, diramazione

• troncone

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tronco

1. first-person singular present indicative of troncare

• contro, contro-, contrò

Inherited from Latin truncus (“tree trunk; trunk of a human; cut-off piece”).

• Homophone: Tronco
• Hyphenation: tron‧co

tronco m (plural troncos)

1. (botany) tree trunk

   Synonyms: caule, estipe, haste

2. (anatomy) trunk; torso

   Synonym: torso

3. in a tree structure, a major branch from which smaller branches stem

   Synonym: talo

4. (linguistics) a language family which is not a subfamily (that is, the topmost family of a language family tree)
5. (geometry) frustum (the portion of a solid hat lies between two parallel planes)
6. stocks (type of device for public humiliation and punishment)

   Synonym: (Brazil) vira-mundo

7. (historical, colonial Brazil) a post where slaves were tied to be flogged
8. prison, jail

   Synonyms: cadeia, prisão, cárcere

• troncho
• truncado
• truncar

• → Dutch: tronk
  • Afrikaans: tronk
    • → English: tronk
    • → Kwanyama: ondolonggo
• → Gujarati: તુરંગ (turaṅg)
• → Kannada: ತುರಂಗ (turaṅga)
• → Malayalam: തുറുങ്ക് (tuṟuṅkŭ)
• → Marathi: तुरुंग (turuṅga)

• tronco on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

• cróton

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾonko/ [ˈt̪ɾõŋ.ko]

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• Rhymes: -onko
• Syllabification: tron‧co

Inherited from Latin truncus. Cognate with English trunk, Italian tronco, Portuguese tronco.

tronco m (plural troncos)

1. trunk (tree trunk)
2. trunk (main channel)

   tronco braquiocefálico ― brachiocephalic artery

3. torso

   Synonym: torso

4. frustum
5. team (of mules, etc.)

   Synonym: tiro

tronco m (plural troncos, feminine tronca, feminine plural troncas)

1. (colloquial, Spain) guy, dude

   Synonym: tron

   • 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter I, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 11:

     —Qué pasa, chavales. ¿Habéis visto el partido, troncos? —pregunta.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tronco

1. first-person singular present indicative of troncar

• “tronco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024