troca

See also: Troca, trocá, and troça

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈtɾo̞.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈtɾɔ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈtɾɔ.ka]

Noun

troca f (plural troques)

1. skein

   Synonym: madeixa

   La Maria i el Joan cabdellaven una troca.

   Mary and John were winding a skein of yarn.

Further reading

• “troca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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, 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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɔ.kɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɔ.kɐ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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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

Further reading

• “troca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “troca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

A pickup truck

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *drem-influ.

Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō)

Ancient Greek -ῐ́λος (-ĭ́los)

Ancient Greek τροχῐ́λος (trokhĭ́los)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek -είᾱ (-eíā)

Ancient Greek τροχῐλείᾱ (trokhĭleíā)der.

Medieval Latin trochleader.

Anglo-Norman troclebor.

Middle English trokel

English truckle?

English truckbor.

Spanish troca

Borrowed from English truck. Compare Sicilian troccu.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

troca f (plural trocas)

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

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

Descendants

• → Southeastern Tepehuan: trooka

Further reading

• “troca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “troca”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Swedish

Noun

troca c

1. (slang) alternative letter-case form of Troca

Declension

Declension of troca

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	troca	trocas
	definite	trocan	trocans
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—