trotar

Ultimately from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tɾuˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [tɾoˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾoˈtaɾ]

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite trotí, past participle trotat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (intransitive) to trot
2. (intransitive) to rush, to walk hurriedly

• trot
• trotada
• trotador

• “trotar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Old French trotter, from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”). See trot.

• IPA^(key): /tɾɔˈtaɾ/

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite trotei, past participle trotado)

1. (intransitive, of a horse) to trot (to move at a gait between a walk and a canter)
   • 1409, José Luis Tomé Pensado, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:

     Et pois ueer tenpo frio deuenno cauallgar et fazerlle trotar porllas margẽes et porllas aradas mansamente pella mañaa

     And after the cold weather come, they should ride the colt and make him trot by the margins and by the ploughed fields gently in the morning

2. (intransitive) to ride a trotting mount

• trote
• trotón

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “trot”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trotar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “trotar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “trotar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “trotar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trotar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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trotar (present tense trotas, past tense trotis, future tense trotos, imperative trotez, conditional trotus)

1. to trot

• troteskar (“to fall into a trot”)
• trotigar (“to cause to trot”)

From French trotter or Italian trottare, from Medieval Latin trottāre, from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). See trot.

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite trotei, past participle trotado)

1. (intransitive, of a horse) to trot (to move at a gait between a walk and a canter)

• trote

• “trotar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from French trotter or Italian trottare, from Medieval Latin trottāre, from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). See English trot.

• IPA^(key): /tɾoˈtaɾ/ [t̪ɾoˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tro‧tar

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite troté, past participle trotado)

1. (intransitive, of a horse) to trot (to move at a gait between a walk and a canter)
2. (intransitive) to jog

• “trotar”, 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