trueno
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾweno/ [ˈt̪ɾwe.no]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -eno
- Syllabification: true‧no
Etymology 1
From Latin tonus (“thunderclap; sound, tone”), possibly through a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *tronus, incremented with an -r- due to influence from *tronitus < tonitrus. Alternatively a derivative of tronar. Compare Galician trono, Portuguese trom, Occitan tron, old Italian trono, Sicilian tronu.
Noun
trueno m (plural truenos)
- a clap of thunder
- (in the plural) thunder
Related terms
- atronar
- tronar
See also
- rugiente
Etymology 2
Cognate with Catalan troana and French troène.
Noun
trueno m (plural truenos)
- (rare) privet
- Synonyms: aligustre, ligustro
Verb
trueno
- first-person singular present indicative of tronar
Further reading
- “trueno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014