trua

See also: trúa

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin trabs.

Noun

trua f

  1. beam, rafter, raft

Irish

Etymology 1

    From Middle Irish trúaige, from Old Irish trógae (“misery; pity”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *trougiyā (“sorrow, sadness”), from *trougos (“sorry, sad”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic truaighe and Breton truez (“pity”).[2]

    Alternative forms

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    trua f (genitive singular trua, nominative plural truanna)

    1. pity, sympathy [with do and person pitied or sympathized with]
      Tá trua agam don amadán.
      I pity the fool.
    Declension
    Declension of trua (fourth declension)
    bare forms
    singular plural
    nominative trua truanna
    vocative a thrua a thruanna
    genitive trua truanna
    dative trua truanna
    forms with the definite article
    singular plural
    nominative an trua na truanna
    genitive na trua na dtruanna
    dative leis an trua
    don trua     		leis na truanna
    Derived terms
    • atrua
    • atruach
    • truacánta
    • truach
    • truachroíoch
    • truamhéala
    • truamhéalach
    • truamhéileach
    • truanairt

    Further reading

    Etymology 2

      From Old Irish trúag,[4] from *trougos (“sorry, sad”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic truagh, Manx treih, and Welsh tru (“wretched, miserable”).[2]

      Alternative forms

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /t̪ˠɾˠuə/[5][6]

      Adjective

      trua

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

      Noun

      trua m (genitive singular truaite)

      2. verbal noun of truaigh (“to make/become thin”)
      Declension
      Declension of trua (irregular, no plural)
      bare forms
      singular
      nominative trua
      vocative a thrua
      genitive truaite
      dative trua
      forms with the definite article
      singular
      nominative an trua
      genitive an truaite
      dative leis an trua
      don trua

      Further reading

      Mutation

      Mutated forms of trua
      radical lenition eclipsis
      trua thrua dtrua

      Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
      All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

      References

      1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
      2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*trowgo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 390
      3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938), Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 12, page 15
      4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
      5. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 62, page 32
      6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 151, page 59

      Latin

      Etymology

      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

      trua f (genitive truae); first declension

      1. A ladle

      Declension

      First-declension noun.

      singular plural
      nominative trua truae
      genitive truae truārum
      dative truae truīs
      accusative truam truās
      ablative truā truīs
      vocative trua truae

      Derived terms

      Descendants

      • ⇒ Galician: trueiro

      References

      • “trua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • "trua", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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

      Etymology 1

      Alternative forms

      Noun

      trua m or f

      1. definite feminine singular of tru

      Etymology 2

      Alternative forms

      Verb

      trua

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

      Norwegian Nynorsk

      Noun

      trua f

      1. definite singular of tru
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