# truc
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɾuk]

### Etymology 1

From trucar (“to knock”).

#### Noun

truc m (plural trucs)
* nock
* call, ring
* hit (of a ball in billiards etc.)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish truco or French truc.

#### Noun

truc m (plural trucs)
* trick (for deceiving)
* trick (skillful play)
* (card games) trick
* (video games) cheat

### Further reading

* “truc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “truc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtrut͡s]

### Noun

truc m inan
* spite

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “truc”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “truc”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “truc”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Dutch
### Etymology

From French truc.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /tryk/
* Rhymes: -yk
* (Belgium) Homophone: truck

### Noun

truc m (plural trucs or truken, diminutive trucje n)
* trick

#### Derived terms

* trukendoos
* truken van de foor

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French truc, from Old French trut, borrowed from Old Occitan truc, deverbal from trucar, from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁyk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -yk

### Noun

truc m (plural trucs)
* procedure, technique
** 1883, Émile Zola, Au bonheur des dames:Il n’y a aucune raison pour que ça s’arrête. Le capital peut passer quinze fois, voici longtemps que je le prédis. Même, dans certains rayons, il passera vingt-cinq et trente fois… Ensuite, eh bien ! ensuite, nous trouverons un truc pour le faire passer davantage.‘There’s no reason why it should stop. The capital can be turned over fifteen times; I’ve been predicting it for a long time. In certain departments it’ll be turned over twenty-five and thirty times … and after that, well, after that we’ll find some way to use it even more.’Translated by Brian Nelson
* (slang, colloquial) thingamajig, thingy, thing
** 1932, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit:— Je t’aime Léon, tu vois bien que je t’aime, Léon... Elle ne savait que ce truc-là, son « je t’aime ». Comme si ç’avait été la réponse à tout.'I love you, Leon . . . Can't you see that I love you?' "That's all she knew, her 'I love you' jazz. As if that was the answer to everything. "Translated by Ralph Manheim
* trick
** 1873, Henry Buguet et Georges d'Heylli, Foyers et coulisses; histoire anecdotique des théâtres de Paris:A la fin de la scène, on use encore d’un truc plus extraordinaire.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Synonyms

* bidule m
* machin m

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: truc
* → Dutch: truc
* → Portuguese: truque
* → Romanian: truc
* → Russian: трюк (trjuk)
* → Spanish: truco
** → Portuguese: truco

### References

* “truc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* crut, crût, turc, Turc

## Middle French
### Alternative forms

* truq, trut

### Etymology

From Old French trut, borrowed from Old Occitan truc, deverbal from trucar, from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre.

### Noun

truc m (plural trucs)
* trick; deception
* stratagem

#### Descendants

* French: truc (see there for further descendants)

### References

* truc on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

Deverbal of trucar.

### Noun

truc m (oblique plural trucs, nominative singular trucs, nominative plural truc)
* hit; strike

#### Descendants

* → Old French: trut
** Middle French: truc, truq, trut
*** French: truc (see there for further descendants)

### References

* “truc”, in Dictionnaire de l’occitan médiéval en ligne (in German and French), Munich: LMU, 2013–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French truc.

### Noun

truc n (plural trucuri)
* trick

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Trotz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /trût͡s/
* Hyphenation: truc

### Noun

trȕc m (Cyrillic spelling тру̏ц)
* (regional) spite, defiance
* (regional) stubbornness, obstinacy

#### Synonyms

* pr̀kos, tvrdòglavōst

### References

* “truc”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025