# trua
## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin trabs.

### Noun

trua f
* beam, rafter, raft

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t̪ˠɾˠuə/
* (Cois Fharraige) IPA: /t̪ˠɾˠuəj/ (also spelled truaí)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* truaighe (superseded)
* truaí (Cois Fharraige)

#### Noun

trua f (genitive singular trua, nominative plural truanna)
* pity, sympathy (with do plus the person pitied or sympathized with)
    Tá trua agam don amadán.I pity the fool.

##### 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

* atrua
* atruach
* truacánta
* truach
* truachroíoch
* truamhéala
* truamhéalach
* truamhéileach
* truán
* truanairt

### Etymology 2

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

#### Alternative forms

* truagh (superseded)

#### Adjective

trua
* pitiable; miserable, wretched
* lean
* thin, emaciated; wasting

#### Noun

trua m (genitive singular truaite)
* verbal noun of truaigh (“make lean, emaciate; become thin, waste away”)

##### Declension

bare forms
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

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

### References

* ↑ 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
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 151, page 59
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* 1 2 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*trowgo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 390
* ↑ 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

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “trua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “truaġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 759
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “truaiġe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 759
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “trua”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “trua”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Latin
### Etymology

Disputed. Presumably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn”); 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
* A ladle

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* trulla

#### 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’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
* ↑ 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

* truen

#### Noun

trua m or f
* definite feminine singular of tru

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* truet

#### Verb

trua
* inflection of true:
** simple past
** past participle

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

trua f
* definite singular of tru