Word Origin Summary

Truncāre is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• tranchi

  Norman · inherited from

• retrenchment

  English · derived from

• trenchier

  French · inherited from

• retrench

  English · derived from

• truncation

  English · derived from

• trancher

  Middle French · inherited from

• transeerata

  Finnish · borrowed from

• trancher

  French · inherited from

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