From Latin truncus . Doublet of tronk and trunk .
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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitization- truncusLatin · n16701
truncus adj. Source etymology: TARC- , maimed, mutilated, mangled, dismembered, disfigured : Trunca manu pinus regit (Polyphemum), i. e. the trunk of a pinetree , V.: frons, without its horn , O.: corpus, limbless , O.:
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truncus ī, m Source etymology: 1 truncus .—Of a tree, the stem, stock, bole, trunk : arborum trunci, Cs.: quid interest inter hominem et truncum? etc.: enodes trunci, V.: inlapsus cerebro, H.: acernus, O.— The trunk, bod
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truncus
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Unknown origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European * twerḱ- ( “ to cut ” ) . Cognate with Ancient Greek σάρξ ( sárx ) , Old Irish tru , troich ( “ fated to die ” ) and Latin trux and Proto-Slavic * strǫkъ .
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