trocar

From French trocart, corruption of trois-quart.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹəʊkɑː(ɹ)/^[1]

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.

• carrot

14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese trocar. Further etymology is uncertain,^[1] but probably ultimately Frankish: see Portuguese trocar for more. Cognate with French troquer, English truck, 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, 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

• troco
• troque

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “trocar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “troq” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trocar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “trocar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trocar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• trokar

From Old Spanish trocar.

trocar

1. to change

From Old Galician-Portuguese trocar, of uncertain origin, but probably ultimately from Frankish *trokōn, like the Spanish cognate, trocar.

• Hyphenation: tro‧car
• Homophone: trucar (Portugal)

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)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:trocar.

• → Hunsrik: trocke
• Kabuverdianu: troka
• Malay: tukar
  • Indonesian: tukar
• Papiamentu: troka

• “trocar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025

Borrowed from French trocart.

trocar n (plural trocare)

1. trocar

From Medieval Latin trocāre. Cognate to English truck.

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

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)

• “trocar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024