troca

See also: trocá and troça

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *torca, from Latin torquis (“collar, wreath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾɔ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈtɾɔ.ka]

Noun

troca f (plural troques)

1. skein

   Synonym: madeixa

Further reading

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

Galician

Verb

troca

1. inflection of trocar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Verb

trocā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of trocō

References

• troca 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)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔkɐ

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɔ.kɐ/

Etymology 1

Deverbal from trocar (“to exchange”).

Noun

troca f (plural trocas)

1. swap; exchange (the act of changing or exchanging one thing for another)

Etymology 2

Verb

troca

1. inflection of trocar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

A pickup truck

Etymology

From English truck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾoka/ [ˈt̪ɾo.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: tro‧ca

Noun

troca f (plural trocas)

1. (informal, Mexico, New Mexico, US) pickup truck

   Synonyms: camioneta, (Argentina, Chile) chata, pickup

Descendants

• → Southeastern Tepehuan: trooka

Further reading

• “troca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• “troca” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010.