# cambio
## English
### Noun

cambio (plural cambios)
* (Guyana) bureau de change; currency exchange

## Asturian
### Verb

cambio
* first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cambio, from Late Latin cambium (“change”), from Latin cambiō (“to change”), from a Celtic language, from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“crooked; bent”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh₂emb- (“bent”). Cognate with Portuguese câmbio and Spanish cambio.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkambjo/ [ˈkɑm.bjʊ]
* Rhymes: -ambjo
* Hyphenation: cam‧bio

#### Noun

cambio m (plural cambios)
* change
* loose change
    Synonym: solto
* exchange, swap
    Synonym: troco

##### Related terms

* camba
* cambiar
* cambota
* canga
* cangallo
* cango
* concambio

#### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cambio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cambio”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cambio”, 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), “cambio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cambio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cambio
* first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkam.bjo/
* Rhymes: -ambjo
* Hyphenation: càm‧bio

### Etymology 1

From verb cambiare from Vulgar Latin cambiāre (“to change, exchange”) from Late Latin cambiō, or from corresponding noun Latin cambium (“change”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). Compare Spanish cambio and Portuguese câmbio.

#### Noun

cambio m (plural cambi)
* exchange
    Synonym: scambio
* change
    Synonyms: cambiamento, sostituzione
* gear, stickshift (of a motor vehicle)

##### Derived terms

* cambio della guardia

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cambio
* first-person singular present indicative of cambiare

### Anagrams

* imbaco

## Latin
### Etymology

From cambium (“exchange”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix), the first element of Gaulish origin. Attested in this form from the 5th century CE, but also found earlier in the fourth-conjugation form cambiō, cambīre.

### Verb

cambiō (present infinitive cambiāre, perfect active cambiāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem (Late Latin)
* to exchange, barter; change

#### Synonyms

* (exchange, barter): mūtō, permūtō

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** → Albanian: këmbej
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: cambiare
** Neapolitan: cagnà
* North Italian:
** Friulian: gambiâ
** Ligurian: cangiâ
** Lombard: cambiar
** Piedmontese: cambié, cangé
** Venetan: canbiar
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: canviar
** Franco-Provençal: changiér
** Old French: changier (see there for further descendants)
** Gascon: cambiar
** Occitan: cambiar
    Auvergnat: chamjar
    Limousin: chamjar, chamnhar
    Vivaro-Alpine: chambiar
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: cambiar
*** Galician: cambiar
*** Portuguese: cambiar
** Spanish: cambiar
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: cambiai, cambiare, cammiare, ciambare
* Vulgar Latin: *excambiāre (see there for further descendants)

### References

* ↑ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cambiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 124
* ↑ “cambio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

### Further reading

* cambio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* cambio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 249.
* cambio in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 943

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

cambio
* first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

cambio m (plural cambios)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of câmbio.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkambjo/ [ˈkãm.bjo]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ambjo
* Syllabification: cam‧bio

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from cambiar. Compare Italian cambio, Portuguese câmbio, and Catalan canvi.

#### Noun

cambio m (plural cambios)
* change, shift
    Si te sientes mal, quizás solo necesites un cambio de aires.If you feel bad, maybe you just need a change of scenery.
* gear (of a motor vehicle)
* exchange rate
    El cambio es de veinte pesos mexicanos por dólar.The exchange rate is twenty mexican pesos to the dollar.

##### Derived terms

* a cambio
* a cambio de
* a las primeras de cambio
* bajar un cambio
* caja de cambios
* cambiazo
* cambiecito
* cambio climático
* cambio de aros
* cambio de humor (“mood swing”)
* cambio de juego (“game changer”)
* cambio de marchas
* cambio de sentido
* cambio de velocidades
* cambio fonético
* cambio y fuera
* casa de cambio
* contrato de cambio
* en cambio
* en cambio de
* letra de cambio
* mesa de cambios
* palanca de cambios
* tasa de cambio
* tipo de cambio
* valor de cambio

#### Interjection

cambio
* (telecommunications) over
    ¡Cambio y corto! ― Over and out!

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cambio
* first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

### Further reading

* “cambio”, 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