different between toco vs troco

English

Etymology 1

Shortening.

Noun

toco (plural tocos)

1. Clipping of tocodynamometer.

Etymology 2

From Hindi ???? (?hoko), second-person plural imperative form of ????? (?hokn?, “to strike, hit, beat”), from Sauraseni Prakrit *???????????????????????????? (*?hokkadi), from Ashokan Prakrit *???????????????????? (*?hokati).

Alternative forms

• toko

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??.k??/
• (US) enPR: t??k?, IPA^(key): /?to?.ko?/
• Rhymes: -??k??

Noun

toco (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, British slang) Corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings.

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Tupian.

Noun

toco (plural tocos)

1. a toco toucan
   • 2007, Les Beletsky, Bird Songs from Around the World, Chronicle Books (?ISBN), page 90:

     The Toco Toucan is surely among the most striking of the toucans, with its black-and-white body and enormous yellow-orange bill. [...] Tocos make loud rattling or clacking sounds with their bills.

   • 2014, R. Eric Miller, Murray E. Fowler, Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine, Volume 8 - E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences (?ISBN), page 234:

     Diabetes mellitus has been reported in tocos (R. toco) and keel-billed toucans.

Anagrams

• Coto, coot, octo-

Asturian

Verb

toco

1. first-person singular present indicative of tocar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?to.ko/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?to.ku/

Verb

toco

1. first-person singular present indicative form of tocar

Galician

Etymology 1

From a substrate pre-Latin language, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (“to swell”).

Akin to Spanish tocón (“stump”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?toko?/, (northwestern) /?t?ko?/

Adjective

toco m (feminine singular toca, masculine plural tocos, feminine plural tocas)

1. maimed; one-handed; one-armed

Noun

toco m (plural tocos)

1. burrow, den

   Synonyms: tobo, pala

2. stump

   Synonyms: cepa, coto, cozo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

toco

1. first-person singular present indicative of tocar

References

• “toco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “toco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “toco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Noun

toco m (plural tocos)

1. stub, stump (something cut short, blunted, or stunted)

Verb

toco

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of tocar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?toko/, [?t?o.ko]

Verb

toco

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of tocar.

English

Noun

troco (uncountable)

1. The game of trucco or lawn billiards.

Anagrams

• coort

Galician

Etymology

Back-formation from trocar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??k?]

Noun

troco m (plural trocos)

1. barter; exchange, switch

   Synonyms: cambio, intercambio

Related terms

• trocar

References

• “troco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “troco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “troco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “troco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *trokan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tro.ko?/, [?t???ko?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tro.ko/, [?t????k?]

Verb

troc? (present infinitive troc?re, perfect active troc?v?, supine troc?tum); first conjugation

1. (Medieval Latin) I barter.

Conjugation

Descendants

• Spanish: trocar
• Old French: troquier, trochier
  • Middle French: troquer, trocher
    • French: troquer
  • ? Middle English: trukien, truken, troken, trochen
    • English: truck
    • Scots: troke, troak
      • ? English: troak, troke
      • ? Scots: troke, troch (“barter”, noun)
      • ? Scots: troker (“bargainer”)
      • ? Scots: trokery (“wares”)
      • ? Scots: trokie (“worthless”)
      • ? Scots: trokin (“trading”)
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Occitan: trocar
  • Catalan: trocar
• Old Portuguese: trocar
  • Portuguese: trocar

Portuguese

Etymology

From trocar (“to switch; to exchange”), from Medieval Latin troc?re (“to barter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?o.ku/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?o.ko/
• Hyphenation: tro?co

Alternative forms

• trôco (obsolete)

Noun

troco m (plural trocos)

1. change (small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination)

   Synonym: trocado

2. (rare) exchange; switch (act of exchanging or switching two thing)

   Synonyms: permutação, substituição, troca

3. a small amount of money

   Synonyms: trocado, miúdo

4. (familiar) payback (act of revenge)

   Synonyms: retorno, vingança

Derived terms

Related terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??.ku/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t??.ko/
• Hyphenation: tro?co

Verb

troco

1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of trocar