truc

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See also: Truc, truć, trúc, trực, trục, and truç

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From trucar (to knock).

Noun

truc m (plural trucs)

  1. nock
  2. call, ring
  3. hit (of a ball in billiards etc.)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish truco or French truc.

Noun

truc m (plural trucs)

  1. trick (for deceiving)
  2. trick (skillful play)
  3. (card games) trick
  4. (video games) cheat

Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

truc m inan

  1. spite

Declension

Further reading

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French truc.

Pronunciation

Noun

truc m (plural trucs or truken, diminutive trucje n)

  1. trick

Derived terms

French

Etymology

    From Middle French truc, from Old French trut, borrowed from Old Occitan truc, deverbal from trucar, from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    truc m (plural trucs)

    1. procedure, technique
      • 1883, Émile Zola, Au bonheur des dames:
        Il n’y a aucune raison pour que ça s’arrête. Le capital peut passer quinze fois, voici longtemps que je le prédis. Même, dans certains rayons, il passera vingt-cinq et trente fois… Ensuite, eh bien ! ensuite, nous trouverons un truc pour le faire passer davantage.
        ‘There’s no reason why it should stop. The capital can be turned over fifteen times; I’ve been predicting it for a long time. In certain departments it’ll be turned over twenty-five and thirty times … and after that, well, after that we’ll find some way to use it even more.’
        Translated by Brian Nelson
    2. (slang, colloquial) thingamajig, thingy, thing
      • 1932, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit:
        — Je t’aime Léon, tu vois bien que je t’aime, Léon...
        Elle ne savait que ce truc-là, son « je t’aime ». Comme si ç’avait été la réponse à tout.
        'I love you, Leon . . . Can't you see that I love you?'
        "That's all she knew, her 'I love you' jazz. As if that was the answer to everything. "
        Translated by Ralph Manheim
    3. trick
      • 1873, Henry Buguet et Georges d'Heylli, Foyers et coulisses; histoire anecdotique des théâtres de Paris:
        A la fin de la scène, on use encore d'un truc plus extraordinaire.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

    Synonyms

    Descendants

    • Catalan: truc
    • Dutch: truc
    • Portuguese: truque
    • Romanian: truc
    • Russian: трюк (trjuk)
    • Spanish: truco

    References

    Anagrams

    Middle French

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      From Old French trut, borrowed from Old Occitan truc, deverbal from trucar, from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre.

      Noun

      truc m (plural trucs)

      1. trick; deception
      2. stratagem

      Descendants

      • French: truc (see there for further descendants)

      References

      • truc on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

      Old Occitan

      Etymology

        Deverbal from trucar.

        Noun

        truc m (oblique plural trucs, nominative singular trucs, nominative plural truc)

        1. hit; strike

        Descendants

        References

        • truc”, in Dictionnaire de l’occitan médiéval en ligne (in German and French), Munich: LMU, 20132025

        Romanian

        Etymology

        Borrowed from French truc.

        Noun

        truc n (plural trucuri)

        1. trick

        Declension

        Declension of truc
        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative-accusative truc trucul trucuri trucurile
        genitive-dative truc trucului trucuri trucurilor
        vocative trucule trucurilor

        Serbo-Croatian

        Etymology

        Borrowed from German Trotz.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /trût͡s/
        • Hyphenation: truc

        Noun

        trȕc m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling тру̏ц)

        1. (regional) spite, defiance
        2. (regional) stubbornness, obstinacy

        Synonyms

        References

        • truc”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025