truc

See also: Truc, truć, trúc, trực, trục, and truç

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈtɾuk]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Etymology 1

From trucar (“to knock”).

Noun

truc m (plural trucs)

1. nock
2. call, ring
3. hit (of a ball in billiards etc.)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish truco or French truc.

Noun

truc m (plural trucs)

1. trick (for deceiving)
2. trick (skillful play)
3. (card games) trick
4. (video games) cheat

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “truc”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “truc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Trotz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrut͡s]

• Audio:

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Noun

truc m inan

1. spite

Declension

Declension of truc (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	truc	trucy
genitive	trucu	truců
dative	trucu	trucům
accusative	truc	trucy
vocative	truce	trucy
locative	trucu	trucech
instrumental	trucem	trucy

Further reading

• “truc”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “truc”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “truc”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Dutch

Alternative forms

• truuk

Etymology

From French truc.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /tryk/
• Rhymes: -yk
• (Belgium) Homophone: truck

Noun

truc m (plural trucs or truken, diminutive trucje n)

1. trick

Derived terms

• trukendoos
• truken van de foor

French

Etymology

From Middle French truc, from Old French trut, borrowed from Old Occitan truc, deverbal from trucar, from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁyk/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Rhymes: -yk

Noun

truc m (plural trucs)

2. procedure, technique
   • 1883, Émile Zola, Au bonheur des dames:

     Il n’y a aucune raison pour que ça s’arrête. Le capital peut passer quinze fois, voici longtemps que je le prédis. Même, dans certains rayons, il passera vingt-cinq et trente fois… Ensuite, eh bien ! ensuite, nous trouverons un truc pour le faire passer davantage.

     ‘There’s no reason why it should stop. The capital can be turned over fifteen times; I’ve been predicting it for a long time. In certain departments it’ll be turned over twenty-five and thirty times … and after that, well, after that we’ll find some way to use it even more.’

     Translated by Brian Nelson

3. (slang, colloquial) thingamajig, thingy, thing
   • 1932, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit:

     — Je t’aime Léon, tu vois bien que je t’aime, Léon...
     Elle ne savait que ce truc-là, son « je t’aime ». Comme si ç’avait été la réponse à tout.

     'I love you, Leon . . . Can't you see that I love you?'
     "That's all she knew, her 'I love you' jazz. As if that was the answer to everything. "

     Translated by Ralph Manheim

4. trick
   • 1873, Henry Buguet et Georges d'Heylli, Foyers et coulisses; histoire anecdotique des théâtres de Paris:

     A la fin de la scène, on use encore d'un truc plus extraordinaire.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

• bidule m
• machin m

Descendants

• → Catalan: truc
• → Dutch: truc
• → Portuguese: truque
• → Romanian: truc
• → Russian: трюк (trjuk)
• → Spanish: truco
  • → Portuguese: truco

References

• “truc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• crut, crût, turc, Turc

Middle French

Alternative forms

• truq, trut

Etymology

From Old French trut, borrowed from Old Occitan truc, deverbal from trucar, from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre.

Noun

truc m (plural trucs)

1. trick; deception
2. stratagem

Descendants

• French: truc (see there for further descendants)

References

• truc on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old Occitan

Etymology

Deverbal from trucar.

Noun

truc m (oblique plural trucs, nominative singular trucs, nominative plural truc)

1. hit; strike

Descendants

• → Old French: trut
  • Middle French: truc, truq, trut
    • French: truc (see there for further descendants)

References

• “truc”, in Dictionnaire de l’occitan médiéval en ligne (in German and French), Munich: LMU, 2013–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French truc.

Noun

truc n (plural trucuri)

1. trick

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	truc	trucul	trucuri	trucurile
genitive-dative	truc	trucului	trucuri	trucurilor
vocative	trucule		trucurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Trotz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trût͡s/
• Hyphenation: truc

Noun

trȕc m inan (Cyrillic spelling тру̏ц)

1. (regional) spite, defiance
2. (regional) stubbornness, obstinacy

Synonyms

• pr̀kos, tvrdòglavōst

References

• “truc”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026