tresce

Old French

Etymology

Probably from Vulgar Latin *trichea, *trichia, *tricia (“braid, rope”), from Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Or, from or influenced by Ancient Greek τριχα (trikha, “threefold”), from τρι- (tri-).

Noun

tresce oblique singular, f (oblique plural tresces, nominative singular tresce, nominative plural tresces)

1. lock of hair

Descendants

• French: tresse

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “tresce”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN