# trotar
## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [tɾuˈta]
* IPA: (Balearic) [tɾoˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [tɾoˈtaɾ]

### Verb

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite trotí, past participle trotat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/
* (intransitive) to trot
* (intransitive) to rush, to walk hurriedly

#### Derived terms

* trot
* trotada
* trotador

### Further reading

* “trotar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾɔˈtaɾ/

### Verb

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite trotei, past participle trotado)
* (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 mañaaAnd 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
* (intransitive) to ride a trotting mount

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* trote
* trotón

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “trot”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* 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

## Ido
### Etymology

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### Verb

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

#### Derived terms

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾoˈta(ʁ)/ [tɾoˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾoˈta(ʁ)/ [tɾoˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /tɾoˈta(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /tɾoˈta(ʁ)/ [tɾoˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /tɾoˈta(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾuˈtaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾuˈtaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /tɾuˈta.ɾi/

### Verb

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite trotei, past participle trotado)
* (intransitive, of a horse) to trot (to move at a gait between a walk and a canter)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Derived terms

* trote

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾoˈtaɾ/ [t̪ɾoˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: tro‧tar

### Verb

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite troté, past participle trotado)
* (intransitive, of a horse) to trot (to move at a gait between a walk and a canter)
* (intransitive) to jog

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

#### Derived terms

* trotacalles
* trotador
* trotamundos
* trote
* trotón

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10