truncar

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

truncar (first-person singular present trunco, past participle truncat)

  1. To truncate
  2. to cut short

Conjugation


Portuguese

Verb

truncar (first-person singular present indicative trunco, past participle truncado)

  1. (transitive) to truncate (shorten something as if by cutting off part of it)

Conjugation


Spanish

Etymology

Latin truncāre.

Verb

truncar (first-person singular present trunco, first-person singular preterite trunqué, past participle truncado)

  1. to truncate, to cut off, to cut on one side: "El nuevo edificio de la Tate Gallery presenta una fachada truncada."
  2. be disappointing to one's expectacions: "Sus ilusiones se vieron truncadas."
  3. to interrupt and not let further develop: "Una novela sobre unos refugiados que vieron truncadas sus vidas por la guerra."

Conjugation

  • c becomes qu before e.
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