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English
Etymology
From French tronc des pauvres (“poor box”).
Noun
tronc (plural troncs)
- (British) A monetary pool, in which tips are collected and later shared out between all staff, e.g. in a restaurant.
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Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin truncus.
Pronunciation
Noun
tronc m (plural troncs)
- trunk, stem, branch
- log
- (architecture) shaft
- (anatomy) trunk, torso
- (geometry) frustrum
- (genealogy) main branch
- (linguistics) branch
- (transport) team (pair of animals)
- (castells) the central vertical part of a castell directly atop the baixos, as opposed to the various levels of the pinya
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Dalmatian
Etymology
From Latin truncus.
Noun
tronc
- trunk
References
- 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
French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin truncus.
Pronunciation
Noun
tronc m (plural troncs)
- (anatomy) trunk
- (botany) trunk, bole (of a tree)
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Further reading
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin truncus.
Noun
tronc m (plural troncs)
- trunk (of a tree)
Romanian
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Interjection
tronc
- thump