Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

truncate 

 

to shorten by cutting off a part

 

The inverted-triangle manner of writing news articles makes it easy to truncate such articles with minimal loss. 

 

Related English word: truncation

 

Latin root word: trunco, truncare, truncavi, truncatus - to maim, mutilate; to shorten by cutting off

 

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