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)
Hyphenated as
tro‧nar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɾoˈnaɾ/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish [Term?], from Latin tonāre (with an -r- due to influence from tronido or Latin tonitrus, Vulgar Latin *tronitus), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”). Compare Portuguese troar, French tonner.
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