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- Latin · borrowed fromdētruncātus
- English todaydetruncate
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dētruncātus, perfect passive participle of dētruncō (“to cut off”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + truncō (“to maim, shorten, cut off”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.