trueno

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾweno/
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  • Rhymes: -eno
  • Syllabification: true‧no

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tonus (thunderclap; sound, tone), possibly through a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *tronus, incremented with an -r- due to influence from *tronitus < tonitrus. Alternatively a derivative of tronar. Compare Galician trono, Portuguese trom, Occitan tron, old Italian trono, Sicilian tronu.

Noun

trueno m (plural truenos)

  1. a clap of thunder
  2. (in the plural) thunder
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Etymology 2

Cognate with Catalan troana and French troène.

Noun

trueno m (plural truenos)

  1. (rare) privet
    Synonyms: aligustre, ligustro

Etymology 3

Verb

trueno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tronar

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