trua

See also: trúa

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin trabs.

Noun

trua f

1. beam, rafter, raft

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish trúaige, from Old Irish trógae (“misery; pity”), from Proto-Celtic *trougiyā (“sorrow, sadness”), from *trougos (“sorry, sad”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic truaighe and Breton truez (“pity”).

Alternative forms

• truaighe (superseded)
• truaí (Cois Fharraige)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠuə/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠuəj/ (also spelled truaí)
• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠuiə/

Noun

trua f (genitive singular trua, nominative plural truanna)

1. pity, sympathy [with do and person pitied or sympathized with]

   Tá trua agam don amadán.

   I pity the fool.

Declension

Declension of trua (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative trua truanna vocative a thrua a thruanna genitive trua truanna dative trua truanna forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an trua na truanna genitive na trua na dtruanna dative leis an trua don trua leis na truanna

Derived terms

• atrua
• atruach
• truacánta
• truach
• truachroíoch
• truamhéala
• truamhéalach
• truamhéileach
• truanairt

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “trua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “truaġ; truaiġe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 759
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “trua”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “trua”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Etymology 2

From Old Irish trúag, from *trougos (“sorry, sad”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic truagh, Manx treih, and Welsh tru (“wretched, miserable”).

Alternative forms

• truagh (superseded)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠuə/

Adjective

trua

1. pitiable; miserable, wretched
2. lean
3. thin, emaciated; wasting

Derived terms

• truán

Noun

trua m (genitive singular truaite)

2. verbal noun of truaigh (“to make/become thin”)

Declension

Declension of trua (irregular, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative trua vocative a thrua genitive truaite dative trua forms with the definite article singular nominative an trua genitive an truaite dative leis an trua don trua

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “trua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “truaiġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 759

Mutation

Mutated forms of trua

radical	lenition	eclipsis
trua	thrua	dtrua

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Latin

Etymology

Disputed. Presumably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn”); compare Sanskrit तर्कु (tarku, “spindle”), Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross, adverse”) and Latin torqueō (“to twist”). Alternatively from *(s)twerH- (“to turn, stir, agitate”).

Noun

trua f (genitive truae); first declension

1. A ladle

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trua	truae
genitive	truae	truārum
dative	truae	truīs
accusative	truam	truās
ablative	truā	truīs
vocative	trua	truae

Derived terms

• trulla

Descendants

• ⇒ Galician: trueiro

References

• “trua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "trua", 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)
• “trua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• truen

Noun

trua m or f

1. definite feminine singular of tru

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• truet

Verb

trua

1. inflection of true:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trua f

1. definite singular of tru