trocar

From French trocart, corruption of trois-quart.

trocar (plural trocars)

1. A pointed hollow cylindrical device used to make small incisions and surgically insert cannulas, etc., into body cavities, or to aspirate fluids.

• carrot

14th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese trocar. Further etymology is uncertain.[1] Gognate with French troquer, English truck, Portuguese trocar, Spanish trocar.

• IPA^(key): /tɾoˈkaɾ/

trocar (first-person singular present troco, first-person singular preterite troquei, past participle trocado)

1. to barter
   • 1381, M. Lucas Álvarez & P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media. Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 101:

     para vender, dar et donar et anejenar, trocar et canbiar

     for selling, giving and donating and alienating, bartering and exchanging

2. to exchange, interchange

   Synonym: cambiar

• troco
• troque

• “trocar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “troq” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “trocar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “trocar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “trocar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Portuguese trocar.

trocar (Latin spelling)

1. to change

From Old Portuguese trocar, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Spanish trocar and French troquer.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾuˈkaɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾoˈka(ʁ)/
• Hyphenation: tro‧car

trocar (first-person singular present indicative troco, past participle trocado)

1. (transitive or ditransitive, with the indirect object taking por) to substitute; to replace (to remove something and put a new one in its place)

   Quero trocar meu carro por um novo.

   I want to get a new car.

   Precisamos trocar as lâmpadas queimadas.

   We have to replace the burnt-out lightbulbs.

   Synonym: substituir

2. (transitive with de) to change (to dispose of something one owns or is using and get a new one)

   Troque de roupa.

   Change your clothes.

   Quero trocar de carro.

   I want to get another car.

   Synonym: mudar de

3. (transitive) to trade with; to exchange (to give [+ com (somebody)] something in exchange for [+ por (something else)])

   Eu e o meu primo trocamos livros.

   My cousin and I traded books.

   O explorador trocou presentes com os nativos.

   The explorer exchanged gifts with the natives.

   Troco um par de sapatos por uma blusa.

   I’ll exchange a pair of shoes for a sweater.

   Synonym: cambiar

4. (transitive) to swap (to switch the position of two things)

   Trocamos os dois cabos e o motor funcionou.

   We swapped the two cables and the motor started working.

   Synonym: intercambiar

5. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking com) to exchange (to give and receive continuously)

   Todo dia eu trocava umas ideias com o vizinho.

   Every day I chatted (literally: exchanged some ideas) with the neighbour.

   Os boxeadores estão trocando socos na cabeça.

   The boxers are exchanging blows to their heads.

6. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of trocar
7. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of trocar
8. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of trocar
9. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of trocar

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:trocar.

• troca
• trocação
• trocado
• troco

• Hunsrik: trocke
• Kabuverdianu: troka
• Ladino: trocar
• Malay: tukar
  • Indonesian: tukar
• Papiamentu: troka

From Latin trocāre. Cognate to English truck.

trocar (first-person singular present trueco, first-person singular preterite troqué, past participle trocado)

1. to barter
2. (reflexive, followed by "en") to turn into; become (usually, for negative changes)

• Rule: o becomes ue in stressed syllables; c becomes qu before e.

• trueque