tructa

Latin

Alternative forms

• tructus

Etymology

Found in Late Latin. Perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “I gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”).

Noun

tructa f (genitive tructae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a kind of trout

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tructa	tructae
genitive	tructae	tructārum
dative	tructae	tructīs
accusative	tructam	tructās
ablative	tructā	tructīs
vocative	tructa	tructae

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: trota
  • Sicilian: trota, trotta
  • Venetan: truta
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: trute
  • Romansch: truta
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: truita
  • Franc-Comtois: trète
  • French: truite
  • Occitan: troita, trocha
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: trucha
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: troita
    • Portuguese: truta
  • Spanish: trucha
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: troftë
  • → English: trout
    • Tok Pisin: traut

References

• “tructa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "tructa", 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)
• tructa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• tructa in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016