truncar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾuŋˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾuŋˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

truncar (first-person singular present trunco, first-person singular preterite trunquí, past participle truncat)

1. to truncate
2. to cut short

• “truncar”, 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
• “truncar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “truncar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “truncar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /tɾuŋˈkaɾ/ [t̪ɾuŋˈkɑɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: trun‧car

truncar (first-person singular present trunco, first-person singular preterite trunquei, past participle truncado)

1. to truncate

• “truncar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “truncar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

truncar (first-person singular present trunco, first-person singular preterite trunquei, past participle truncado)

1. (transitive) to truncate (shorten something as if by cutting off part of it)

• tronco

• “truncar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Borrowed from Latin truncāre.

• IPA^(key): /tɾunˈkaɾ/ [t̪ɾũŋˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: trun‧car

truncar (first-person singular present trunco, first-person singular preterite trunqué, past participle truncado)

1. to truncate, to cut off, to cut on one side

   El nuevo edificio de la Tate Gallery presenta una fachada truncada.

   The new Tate Gallery building features a truncated facade.

2. to be disappointing to one's expectacions

   Sus ilusiones se vieron truncadas.

   His hopes were shattered.

3. to interrupt and not let further develop

   Una novela sobre unos refugiados que vieron truncadas sus vidas por la guerra.

   A novel about a group of refugees whose lives were cut short by the war.

• “truncar”, 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