trocar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to replace, to substitute (to remove something and put a new one in its place)
  2. (intransitive) to change (to dispose of something one owns or is using and get a new one)
  3. (transitive) to trade; to exchange
  4. (transitive) to swap (to switch the position of two things)
  5. (transitive) to exchange (to give and receive simultaneously)
  6. (reflexive) to change (to replace the clothing one is wearing)

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɾoˈka(ʁ)/
Etymology

In summary

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

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