truie

French

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin troia. Cognate with Italian troia, Occitan truèja, Catalan truja, Walloon troye. Further origin uncertain:

• It has been compared to Latin porcus Troiānus (literally “Trojan pig”), a singularly attested name for a stuffed roast of pork, so called by humorous comparison to the “filled” Trojan horse.
• More likely of Celtic origin, from a Gaulish *trogja, from a root meaning “to pull” and thence also “fertile," Proto-Celtic *trāglo-, for which see Latin traho.
• Finally it might be an imitative formation after the sound of a pig's grunt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɥi/

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Noun

truie f (plural truies)

1. sow (female pig)
2. (derogatory) unclean woman

Hypernyms

• cochon
• porc
• pourceau

Coordinate terms

• verrat (boar)

Further reading

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