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tronar.

to thunder

6 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

verb/tɾoˈnaɾ/[t̪ɾoˈnaɾ]
  1. to thunder

    impersonal · intransitive
  2. to bust, ruin (person)

    colloquial · transitive
  3. to fail (not pass an exam)

    colloquial · intransitive
  4. to crack (to make a cracking sound)

    colloquial
  5. to kill (someone)

    Costa-Rica · El-Salvador · Guatemala · Honduras · Mexico · Nicaragua · colloquial · transitive
  6. to die

    Ecuador · colloquial · intransitive
  7. to fail (a student) (to give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour)

    Cuba · El-Salvador · Guatemala · Honduras · Mexico · Nicaragua · colloquial · transitive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Spanish [Term?], from Latin tonāre (“to thunder”) (with an -r- due to influence from tronido (“thunder”) or Latin tonitrus (“thunder”), Vulgar Latin *tronitus). Compare Portuguese troar, French tonner.

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