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Latin
Etymology
Of unclear origin.
De Vaan prefers to connect the word to Proto-Celtic *drukos (“bad”), assuming a sound change from Proto-Indo-European *dr- > Latin tr-. However, this assumes that the Celtic form derives from a Proto-Indo-European root starting with *dr- (instead of a different consonant cluster like *dʰr-), which is far from certain.
An alternative theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *truḱ-, a metathesis of *turḱ-, zero-grade of *twerḱ- (“to cut”). In this case, cognate with Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx), Old Irish tru, troich (“fated to die”) and others in Sanskrit and Hittite.
Pronunciation
Adjective
trux (genitive trucis, comparative trucior, superlative trucissimus, adverb truciter); third-declension one-termination adjective
- wild, rough, harsh, savage, fierce, ferocious
- Synonyms: torvus, saevus, truculentus, ferōx, atrōx, violēns, immānis, efferus, ferus, crūdēlis, barbaricus, silvāticus, ācer, acerbus, sevērus
- Antonyms: mītis, tranquillus, misericors, placidus, quietus, clemens
- grim, stern
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “trux, -cis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 631
- ^ Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Further reading
- “trux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “trux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- trux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1102
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic. The Maltese plural directly continues طُرْش (ṭurš), plural of أَطْرَش (ʔaṭraš). The singular might go back to an intensive/frequentative form *طَرُوش (*ṭarūš) or might be a backformation from truxija (“deafness”).
Sense 2 is usually used for the geminated verbs, possibly called as such due to being ‘less responsive’ to change in structure.
Pronunciation
Adjective
trux (feminine singular truxa, plural torox, diminutive trajjax or trajjex)
- deaf
- Synonym: turxan
- (phonology) geminated