# trocar
## English
### Etymology

From French trocart, corruption of trois-quart.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɹəʊkɑː(ɹ)/

### Noun

trocar (plural trocars)
* A pointed hollow cylindrical device used to make small incisions and surgically insert cannulas, etc., into body cavities, or to aspirate fluids.
** 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 313:He wheeled his first patient over to the operating room […] and began pulling out the marrow, plunging a steel trocar repeatedly into the hip and drawing out the cells.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “trocar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* carrot

## Galician
### Etymology

14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese trocar. Further etymology is uncertain. Cognate with French troquer, English truck, Portuguese trocar, Spanish trocar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾoˈkaɾ/

### Verb

trocar (first-person singular present troco, first-person singular preterite troquei, past participle trocado)
* to barter
** 1381, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 101:para vender, dar et donar et anejenar, trocar et canbiarfor selling, giving and donating and alienating, bartering and exchanging
* to exchange, interchange
    Synonym: cambiar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Derived terms

* troco
* troque

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “trocar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “troq” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trocar”, 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), “trocar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trocar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “trocar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Ladino
### Alternative forms

* trokar

### Etymology

From Portuguese trocar.

### Verb

trocar
* to change

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese trocar, from French troquer, from Frankish *trokan. Cognate with Spanish trocar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾoˈka(ʁ)/ [tɾoˈka(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾoˈka(ʁ)/ [tɾoˈka(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /tɾoˈka(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /tɾoˈka(ʁ)/ [tɾoˈka(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /tɾoˈka(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾuˈkaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾuˈkaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /tɾuˈka.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: tro‧car

### Verb

trocar (first-person singular present troco, first-person singular preterite troquei, past participle trocado)
* (transitive) to replace, to substitute (to remove something and put a new one in its place) [with direct object ‘someone/something’ and por ‘with someone/something else’]
    Synonym: substituir
    Quero trocar meu carro por um novo.I want to replace my car with a new one.
    Precisamos trocar as lâmpadas queimadas.We have to replace the burnt-out lightbulbs.
* (intransitive) to change (to dispose of something one owns or is using and get a new one) [with de ‘something no longer wanted or needed’]
    Synonym: mudar de
    Troque de roupa.Change your clothes.
    Quero trocar de carro.I want to change cars.
* (transitive) to trade; to exchange [with direct object ‘something’ and com ‘with someone’ and por ‘for something else’]
    Synonym: cambiar
    Eu e o meu primo trocamos livros.My cousin and I traded books.
    O explorador trocou presentes com os nativos.The explorer exchanged gifts with the natives.
    Troco um par de sapatos por uma blusa.I’ll exchange a pair of shoes for a sweater.
* (transitive) to swap (to switch the position of two things)
    Synonym: intercambiar
    Trocamos os dois cabos e o motor funcionou.We swapped the two cables and the motor started working.
* (transitive) to exchange (to give and receive simultaneously) [with direct object ‘something’ and com ‘with someone’]
    Todo dia eu trocava umas ideias com o vizinho.Every day I chatted with the neighbour.(literally, “Every day I exchanged some ideas ...”)
    Os boxeadores estão trocando socos na cabeça.The boxers are exchanging blows to their heads.
* (reflexive) to change (to replace the clothing one is wearing)

#### Conjugation

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

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:trocar.

#### Derived terms

* destrocar
* troca
* troca-tintas
* trocação
* trocado
* troco

#### Descendants

* → Hunsrik: trocke
* Kabuverdianu: troka
* Ladino: trocar
* Malay: tukar
** Indonesian: tukar
* Papiamentu: troka

### Further reading

* “trocar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French trocart.

### Noun

trocar n (plural trocare)
* trocar

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin trocāre. Cognate to English truck.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾoˈkaɾ/ [t̪ɾoˈkaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: tro‧car

### Verb

trocar (first-person singular present trueco, first-person singular preterite troqué, past participle trocado)
* to barter
* (reflexive, followed by "en") to turn into; become (usually for negative changes)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* trueque

### Further reading

* “trocar”, 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