truque

Noun

1. (masculine) trick (something designed to fool)
2. (masculine) trick (single piece of a magician’s act)
3. (broadly, masculine) trick (an effective, clever or quick way of doing something)

Verb

1. (first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person) inflection of trucar:
2. (form-of, imperative, singular, third-person) inflection of trucar:

trucar

to make the first bid in the game of Truco

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɾu.ki/

Etymology

Borrowed from French: truc

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *trewd-der.
Proto-Italic *troudō
Vulgar Latin trūdō
Vulgar Latin -icō
Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre
Old Occitan trucar
Old Occitan trucbor.
Old French trut
Middle French truc
French trucbor.
Portuguese truque
Borrowed from French truc, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *trudicō, from Latin trudō. Doublet of truco.

Concepts

trick

ruse

twist

artifice

device

gimmick

hocus-pocus

illusion

legerdemain

lie

magic

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martingale

ploy

quirk

scheme

thaumaturgy

wrinkle

magic trick

conjuration

conjuring trick

deception

Synonyms

artimanha

maracutaia

ilusão

magia

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Translations

truco

Trick

truc

artimaña

🪤

List

ruse

Kniff

truc

trucco

stratagemma

list

Kunstgriff

Finte

tour

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Sentences

Um homem fazendo algum tipo de truque .

A man doing some kind of trick.

Um esquiador com uma jaqueta marrom faz um truque na neve .

A skier in a brown jacket does a trick in the snow.