trueno
Meaning
-
- (masculine) a clap of thunder
- (in-plural,masculine) thunder
Frequency
Hyphenated as
true‧no
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɾweno/
Etymology
Inherited from Latin tonus (“thunderclap; sound, tone”), possibly through a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *tronus, incremented with an -r- due to influence from *tronitus < tonitrus. Alternatively a derivative of tronar. Compare Galician trono, Portuguese trom, Occitan tron, old Italian trono, Sicilian tronu.
Cognate with Galician
trono
Cognate with Portuguese
trom
Cognate with Catalan
troana
Cognate with French
troène
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New
tronar
- (impersonal,intransitive) to thunder
- (colloquial,transitive) to bust, ruin (person)
- (colloquial,intransitive) to fail (not pass an exam)
- (colloquial) to crack (to make a cracking sound)
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