trocar
Meaning
- (transitive) to replace, to substitute (to remove something and put a new one in its place)
- (intransitive) to change (to dispose of something one owns or is using and get a new one)
- (transitive) to trade; to exchange [with direct object ‘something’ and com ‘with someone’ and por ‘for something else’]}}
- (transitive) to swap (to switch the position of two things)
- (transitive) to exchange (to give and receive simultaneously)
- (reflexive) to change (to replace the clothing one is wearing)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
tro‧car
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɾoˈka(ʁ)/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese trocar, from French troquer, from Frankish *trokan. Cognate with Spanish trocar.
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