trencar

Catalan

Etymology

From , itself possibly from a Vulgar Latin *trinicāre (“cut into three parts”), from the root trini, based on duplicāre, or alternatively from an alteration of Latin truncāre. It may also derive from or be influenced by a pre-Roman, possibly Gaulish word, cf. *trincare (“cut the head”), or a base *trenko. Compare Occitan trencar, French trancher, Old French trenchier, Galician trincar, Portuguese trincar and Italian troncare. Native doublet of trinxar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾəŋˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾeŋˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

trencar (first-person singular present trenco, first-person singular preterite trenquí, past participle trencat)

1. to break

   Synonym: rompre

Related terms

• a trencajunts
• trenc
• trenca
• trencaaigües
• trencable
• trencacaps
• trencaclosques
• trencacolls
• trencacorrents
• trencada
• trencadella
• trencadís
• trencadissa
• trencador
• trencadura
• trencaglaç
• trencallums
• trencament
• trencanous
• trencapassa
• trencat

 

Further reading

• “trencar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “trencar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “trencar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trencar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.