trux
Latin
Etymology
May be from Proto-Indo-European *truḱ-, a metathesis of *turḱ-, zero-grade of *twerḱ- (“to cut”). Cognate with Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx), Old Irish tru, troich (“fated to die”) and others in Sanskrit and Hittite.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /truks/, [trʊks]
Adjective
trux (genitive trucis, comparative trucior, superlative trucissimus); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | trux | trucēs | trucia | ||
| genitive | trucis | trucium | |||
| dative | trucī | trucibus | |||
| accusative | trucem | trux | trucēs | trucia | |
| ablative | trucī, truce | trucibus | |||
| vocative | trux | trucēs | trucia | ||
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italian: truce
- Spanish: truz
References
- 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 [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1102
- ↑ Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
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