truculento
Galician
Etymology
From Latin truculentus.
Adjective
truculento m (feminine singular truculenta, masculine plural truculentos, feminine plural truculentas)
- gruesome, horrifying
Related terms
- truculencia
Further reading
- “truculento” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin truculentus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tru.kuˈlɛn.to/
- Rhymes: -ɛnto
- Hyphenation: tru‧cu‧lèn‧to
Adjective
truculento (feminine truculenta, masculine plural truculenti, feminine plural truculente)
- truculent, grim, cruel
- gruesome
Related terms
- truculenza
Further reading
- truculento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Adjective
truculentō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of truculentus
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin truculentus.
Adjective
truculento (feminine truculenta, masculine plural truculentos, feminine plural truculentas)
- truculent; fierce; savage
Related terms
- truculência
Further reading
- “truculento” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin truculentus (“fierce, savage”), from trux (“fierce, wild”).
Adjective
truculento (feminine truculenta, masculine plural truculentos, feminine plural truculentas)
- truculent, cruel, savage
- deadly, destructive
Related terms
- truculencia
Further reading
- “truculento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014