tronco

trunk

noun TRON-koh Rare

Origin: From Latin truncus (trunk, lopped tree).

Also means

torso

Usage Note

Tronco covers both the trunk of a tree and the torso of the human body. It also appears in the compound linea tronca (a cut-off line) and the idiom tagliare di netto / lasciare in tronco — to cut someone off abruptly. The plural is regular: tronchi.

Examples

"Il tronco dell'albero è molto largo."

Natural Translation

The tree trunk is very wide.

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