truncus

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truncus (plural trunci)

1. (biology) The thorax of an insect.
2. (medicine) The trunk (torso) of the human body or other animal body.
3. (medicine) An arterial trunk, such as the truncus arteriosus.
4. (geometry) A curve in the Cartesian plane consisting of all points (x,y) satisfying an equation of the form ${\displaystyle f(x)={a \over (x+b)^{2}}+c}$ where a, b, and c are given constants.

• conotruncus

• uncurst

Unknown origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *twerḱ- (“to cut”). Cognate with Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx), Old Irish tru, troich (“fated to die”) and Latin trux[1] [2][3] and Proto-Slavic *strǫkъ.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtrun.kus/, [ˈt̪rʊŋkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtrun.kus/, [ˈt̪ruŋkus]

truncus (feminine trunca, neuter truncum); first/second-declension adjective

1. lopped, docked
2. maimed, mangled, mutilated

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• Spanish: trunco

truncus m (genitive truncī); second declension

1. A tree trunk.
2. (New Latin, biology) The thorax of an insect.
3. (New Latin, medicine) The trunk (torso) of the human body or other animal body.
4. (New Latin, medicine) An arterial trunk, such as the truncus arteriosus.
5. A piece cut off.

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• (tree trunk): capitō (Mediaeval)

• *trunca
  • French: tronche
• *trunceus
  • Old French: trons
    • French: tronçon
• truncō (and its descendants)
• trunculus

• “truncus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “truncus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• truncus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• truncus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette