See also: troçar and trócar

English

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From French trocart, corruption of trois-quart.

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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.
    • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 313:
      He wheeled his first patient over to the operating room [] and began pulling out the marrow, plunging a steel trocar repeatedly into the hip and drawing out the cells.

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Galician

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Etymology

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

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

  1. to barter
    • 1381, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, 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

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “trocar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Ladino

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Etymology

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From Portuguese trocar.

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trocar (Latin spelling)

  1. to change

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese trocar, from French troquer, from Frankish *trokan. Cognate with Spanish trocar.

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  • Hyphenation: tro‧car

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

  1. (transitive) to replace, to substitute (to remove something and put a new one in its place) [with direct object ‘someone/something’ and por ‘with someone/something else’]
    Synonym: substituir
    Quero trocar meu carro por um novo.
    I want to replace my car with a new one.
    Precisamos trocar as lâmpadas queimadas.
    We have to replace the burnt-out lightbulbs.
  2. (intransitive) to change (to dispose of something one owns or is using and get a new one) [with de ‘something no longer wanted or needed’]
    Synonym: mudar de
    Troque de roupa.
    Change your clothes.
    Quero trocar de carro.
    I want to change cars.
  3. (transitive) to trade; to exchange [with direct object ‘something’ and com ‘with someone’ and por ‘for something else’]}}
    Synonym: cambiar
    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.
  4. (transitive) to swap (to switch the position of two things)
    Synonym: intercambiar
    Trocamos os dois cabos e o motor funcionou.
    We swapped the two cables and the motor started working.
  5. (transitive) to exchange (to give and receive simultaneously) [with direct object ‘something’ and com ‘with someone’]
    Todo dia eu trocava umas ideias com o vizinho.
    Every day I chatted with the neighbour.
    (literally, “Every day I exchanged some ideas ...”)
    Os boxeadores estão trocando socos na cabeça.
    The boxers are exchanging blows to their heads.
  6. (reflexive) to change (to replace the clothing one is wearing)

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Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:trocar.

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Descendants

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

Further reading

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  • trocar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 20092024

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French trocart.

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trocar n (plural trocare)

  1. trocar

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Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin trocāre. Cognate to English truck.

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  • IPA(key): /tɾoˈkaɾ/ [t̪ɾoˈkaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: tro‧car

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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)

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