troco

troco (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of trucco (“lawn billiards”).

• coort

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɔko/ [ˈt̪ɾɔ.kʊ]
• Rhymes: -ɔko
• Hyphenation: tro‧co

Back-formation from trocar.

• troque

troco m (plural trocos)

1. barter; exchange, switch

   Synonyms: cambio, intercambio

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “troco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “troco”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “troco”, 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), “troco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

troco

1. first-person singular present indicative of trocar

Borrowed from Frankish *trokōn.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɔ.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪rɔː.ko]

trocō (present infinitive trocāre, perfect active trocāvī, supine trocātum); first conjugation

1. (Medieval Latin) to barter

• Spanish: trocar
• Old French: troquier, trochier
  • Middle French: troquer, trocher
    • French: troquer
  • → Middle English: trukien, truken, troken, trochen
    • English: truck
    • Scots: troke, troak
      • → English: troak, troke
      • ⇒ Scots: troke, troch (“barter”, noun)
      • ⇒ Scots: troker (“bargainer”)
      • ⇒ Scots: trokery (“wares”)
      • ⇒ Scots: trokie (“worthless”)
      • ⇒ Scots: trokin (“trading”)
• Old Occitan:
  • Occitan: trocar
  • Catalan: trocar
• Old Galician-Portuguese: trocar
  • Portuguese: trocar

Deverbal from trocar (“to switch; to exchange”), from Medieval Latin trocāre (“to barter”).

• trôco (pre-reform spelling)

• Rhymes: -oku
• Hyphenation: tro‧co

troco m (plural trocos, metaphonic)

1. change (small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination)

   Synonym: trocado

2. (rare) exchange; switch (act of exchanging or switching two thing)

   Synonyms: permutação, substituição, troca

3. (in the plural) a small amount of money

   Synonyms: trocado, miúdo

4. (informal) payback (act of revenge)

   Synonyms: retorno, vingança

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔku
• Hyphenation: tro‧co

troco

1. first-person singular present indicative of trocar