Etymograph

English

truss

Truss comes from Old French trousse, and goes back to Classical Latin tortus.

  1. Classical Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtortus
  2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*torsusreconstructedvariant of tortus
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400trousse
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500trusse
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1579truss

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Classical Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtortus
  2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*torsusreconstructedvariant of tortus
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400trousse
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500trusse
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1579truss

Earliest quotation: 1579, Immeritô pseudonym; Edmund Spenser, May. Ægloga Quinta.: “bearing a truss of trifles at his back”.

Linked words

through Classical Latin tortus

torture, tort, 6 more

Another origin of truss

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400trousser
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500trussen‘to truss’
  3. Englishtodaytruss

Today it means

noun A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Classical Latin tortus / truss

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