trunk
English
/tɹʌŋk/, /tɹʌŋk/
noun
Definitions
- (heading) Part of a body.
- (heading) A container.
- (heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
- (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
- The main line or body of anything.
- A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
- Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tronke derived from Old French tronc (alms box, tree trunk, headless body, trunk) derived from Latin truncus (trunk, a stock, lopped tree trunk).
Origin
Latin
truncus
Gloss
trunk, a stock, lopped tree trunk
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bank English
- betrunk English
- detrunk English
- fish English
- hose English
- intrunk English
- line English
- load English
- maker English
- making English
- multitrunked English
- nontrunk English
- pseudotrunk English
- supertrunk English
- trunk-like English
- trunkal English
- trunkback English
- trunked English
- trunker English
- trunkfish English
- trunkful English
- trunkhose English
- trunking English
- trunkless English
- trunklessness English
- trunklike English
- trunkline English
- trunkload English
- trunkmaker English
- trunkmaking English
- trunky English
- untrunk English
- *troncionem Latin
- truncus Latin
- tronco Italian
- tronc French
- troncation French
- tronquer French
- entroncar Spanish, Castilian
- picatroncos Spanish, Castilian
- trepatroncos Spanish, Castilian
- tronco Spanish, Castilian
- tronco de Navidad Spanish, Castilian
- tronquito Spanish, Castilian
- *twerḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- tronco Portuguese
- トランク Japanese
- tronke Middle English
- tronc Old French
- trunko Esperanto
- tronc Catalan, Valencian
- tronco Galician
- trwnc Welsh
- tronc Middle Dutch
- 트렁크 Korean
- tronc Friulian
- tronc Dalmatian