English
supertrunk
From super- + trunk.
Latin truncus ‘a stock, lopped tree trunk’
Old French tronc ‘alms box, tree trunk, headless body’
Middle English tronke ‘a tree trunk’
English trunk
Today it means
noun A low-loss, dual cable underground link that offers high speed and high bandwidth
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “supertrunk”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / supertrunk