tronar
Meaning
- (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)
- (Costa-Rica, El-Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, colloquial, transitive) to kill (someone)
- (Ecuador, colloquial, intransitive) to die
- (Cuba, El-Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, colloquial, transitive) to fail (a student) (to give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour)
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
Hyphenated as
tro‧nar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɾoˈnaɾ/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Spanish [Term?], from Latin tonāre (“to thunder”) (with an -r- due to influence from tronido (“thunder”) or Latin tonitrus (“thunder”), Vulgar Latin *tronitus). Compare Portuguese troar, French tonner.
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