tronc
English edit
Etymology edit
From French tronc des pauvres (“poor box”).
Noun edit
tronc (plural troncs)
- (British) A monetary pool, in which tips are collected and later shared out between all staff, e.g. in a restaurant.
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Catalan edit
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Noun edit
tronc m (plural troncs)
- trunk, stem, branch
- log
- (architecture) shaft
- (anatomy) trunk, torso
- (geometry) frustrum
- (genealogy) main branch
- (linguistics) branch
- (transport) team (pair of animals)
- (castells) the central vertical part of a castell directly atop the baixos, as opposed to the various levels of the pinya
Synonyms edit
- (stem): tija
- (shaft of a column): fust
- (branch of descent): embrancament
- (main branch of a family): línia troncal
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Further reading edit
- “tronc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dalmatian edit
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tronc
References edit
- Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000
French edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
tronc m (plural troncs)
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Further reading edit
- “tronc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian edit
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Noun edit
tronc m (plural troncs)
- trunk (of a tree)
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tronc