truc

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

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

• “truc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “truc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Dutch

Etymology

From French truc.

Pronunciation

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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/

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• Rhymes: -yk

Noun

truc m (plural trucs)

1. 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

2. (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

3. 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, 2013–2024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French truc.

Noun

truc n (plural trucuri)

1. trick

Declension

Declension of truc

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) truc	trucul	(niște) trucuri	trucurile
genitive/dative	(unui) truc	trucului	(unor) trucuri	trucurilor
vocative	trucule		trucurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Trotz.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

trȕc m (Cyrillic spelling тру̏ц)

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

Synonyms

• pr̀kos, tvrdòglavōst

References

• “truc” in Hrvatski jezični portal