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trua

See also: trúa

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin trabs.

Noun

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trua f

  1. beam, rafter, raft

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Irish trúaige, from Old Irish trógae (“misery; pity”).[3]

Noun

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trua f (genitive singular trua, nominative plural truanna)

  1. pity, sympathy (with do plus the person pitied or sympathized with)
    Tá trua agam don amadán.
    I pity the fool.
Declension
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Declension of trua

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative trua truanna
Vocative a thrua a thruanna
Genitive trua truanna
Dative trua truanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an trua na truanna
Genitive na trua na dtruanna
Dative leis an trua

don trua

leis na truanna
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Irish trúag, from Old Irish tróg.[4]

Adjective

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trua

  1. pitiable; miserable, wretched
  2. lean
  3. thin, emaciated; wasting

Noun

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trua m (genitive singular truaite)

  1. verbal noun of truaigh (“make lean, emaciate; become thin, waste away”)
Declension
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Declension of trua

Irregular

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative trua
Vocative a thrua
Genitive truaite
Dative trua

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an trua
Genitive an truaite
Dative leis an trua

don trua

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
trua thrua dtrua
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 62, page 32
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 151, page 59
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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Disputed. Presumably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn”);[1] compare Sanskrit तर्कु (tarku, “spindle”), Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross, adverse”) and Latin torqueō (“to twist”). Alternatively from *(s)twerH- (“to turn, stir, agitate”).

Noun

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trua f (genitive truae); first declension

  1. A ladle

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative trua truae
Genitive truae truārum
Dative truae truīs
Accusative truam truās
Ablative truā truīs
Vocative trua truae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • ⇒ Galician: trueiro

References

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  • “trua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • trua in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “trua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “trua”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 708

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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trua m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of tru

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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trua

  1. inflection of true:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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trua f

  1. definite singular of tru
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