trocken

Signification (Anglais)

1. dry (not wet; lacking water)
2. dry (not sweet)
3. (person) dry (abstinent after having had an alcohol problem)
4. dry (subtly humorous, and often mildly rude)
5. dry (dull, boring)

Concepts

sec

aride

sèche

anhydre

ennuyeux

au régime sec

desséché

gueule de bois

assoiffé

séché

sèche ''f''

sec ''m''

crûment

sèchement

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈtʁɔkən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle High German trucken, trocken, from Old High German truckan, trokkan (“dried out, parched, thirsty, dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drukn, from Proto-Germanic *druknaz, *druhnaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”).
The form trucken was originally predominant, but the word eventually became standardized in an old western variant with -o-. Cognate with Old Saxon drokno (“dry”, adverb), Old English ġedrycnan (“to dry up”).