trencar

Inherited from Old Catalan trencar, itself possibly from a Vulgar Latin *trinicāre (“cut into three parts”), from the root trini, based on duplicāre, or alternatively from an alteration of Latin truncāre. It may also derive from or be influenced by a pre-Roman, possibly Gaulish word, cf. *trincare (“cut the head”), or a base *trenko. Compare Occitan trencar, French trancher, Old French trenchier, Galician trincar, Portuguese trincar and Italian troncare. Native doublet of trinxar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾəŋˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [tɾeŋˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

trencar (first-person singular present trenco, first-person singular preterite trenquí, past participle trencat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to break

   Synonym: rompre

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to break, fracture, snap

   trencar-se un braç ― to break an arm

3. (transitive) to crack
4. (transitive) to crease
5. (transitive, figurative) to break into, to interrupt

   Synonym: interrompre

6. (intransitive) to break off (to change direction suddenly)

• “trencar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “trencar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “trencar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trencar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.