trua

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Dalmatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin trabs.

Noun[edit]

trua f

  1. beam, rafter, raft

Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Irish trúaige, from Old Irish trógae (misery; pity).

Noun[edit]

trua f (genitive singular trua, nominative plural truanna)

  1. pity, sympathy (with do plus the person pitied or sympathized with)
    trua agam don amadán.
    I pity the fool.
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle Irish trúag, from Old Irish tróg.

Adjective[edit]

trua

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

Noun[edit]

trua m (genitive singular truaite)

  1. verbal noun of truaigh (make lean, emaciate; become thin, waste away)
Declension[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
trua thrua dtrua
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Disputed. Presumably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (to turn);[1] compare Sanskrit तर्कु (tarku, spindle), Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (cross, adverse) and Latin torqueō (to twist). Alternatively from *(s)twerH- (to turn, stir, agitate).

Noun[edit]

trua f (genitive truae); first declension

  1. A ladle

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative trua truae
Genitive truae truārum
Dative truae truīs
Accusative truam truās
Ablative truā truīs
Vocative trua truae

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Galician: trueiro

References[edit]

  • 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
  1. ^ Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “trua”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 708

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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Noun[edit]

trua m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of tru

Etymology 2[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

trua

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

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Noun[edit]

trua f

  1. definite singular of tru