troca

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

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

troca f (plural troques)

1. skein

   Synonym: madeixa

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

troca

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

trocā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of trocō

• 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)

• Rhymes: -ɔkɐ

Deverbal from trocar (“to exchange”).

troca f (plural trocas)

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

troca

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

From English truck.

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

troca f (plural trocas)

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

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

• → Southeastern Tepehuan: trooka

• “troca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• “troca” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010

troca c

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