cambio

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word cambio. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word cambio, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say cambio in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word cambio you have here. The definition of the word cambio will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofcambio, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: cambió, cambiò, and câmbio

English

Noun

cambio (plural cambios)

  1. (Guyana) bureau de change; currency exchange

Asturian

Verb

cambio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cambio, from Late Latin cambium (change), from Latin cambiō (to change), from a Celtic language, from Proto-Celtic *kambos (crooked; bent), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh₂emb- (bent). Cognate with Portuguese câmbio and Spanish cambio.

Pronunciation

Noun

cambio m (plural cambios)

  1. change
  2. loose change
    Synonym: solto
  3. exchange, swap
    Synonym: troco
Related terms

References

  • cambio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • cambio” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • cambio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • cambio” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • cambio” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

cambio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkam.bjo/
  • Rhymes: -ambjo
  • Hyphenation: càm‧bio

Etymology 1

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

From verb cambiare from Vulgar Latin cambiāre (to change, exchange) from Late Latin cambiō, or from corresponding noun Latin cambium (change), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (to bend, curve). Compare Spanish cambio and Portuguese câmbio.

Noun

cambio m (plural cambi)

  1. exchange
    Synonym: scambio
  2. change
    Synonyms: cambiamento, sostituzione
  3. gear, stickshift (of a motor vehicle)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cambio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From cambium (exchange) +‎ (verb-forming suffix), the first element of Gaulish origin. Attested in this form from the 5th century CE, but also found earlier in the fourth-conjugation form cambiō, cambīre.

Verb

cambiō (present infinitive cambiāre, perfect active cambiāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem (Late Latin)

  1. to exchange, barter; change

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cambiō (first conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cambiō cambiās cambiat cambiāmus cambiātis cambiant
imperfect cambiābam cambiābās cambiābat cambiābāmus cambiābātis cambiābant
future cambiābō cambiābis cambiābit cambiābimus cambiābitis cambiābunt
perfect cambiāvī cambiāvistī cambiāvit cambiāvimus cambiāvistis cambiāvērunt,
cambiāvēre
pluperfect cambiāveram cambiāverās cambiāverat cambiāverāmus cambiāverātis cambiāverant
future perfect cambiāverō cambiāveris cambiāverit cambiāverimus cambiāveritis cambiāverint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cambiem cambiēs cambiet cambiēmus cambiētis cambient
imperfect cambiārem cambiārēs cambiāret cambiārēmus cambiārētis cambiārent
perfect cambiāverim cambiāverīs cambiāverit cambiāverīmus cambiāverītis cambiāverint
pluperfect cambiāvissem cambiāvissēs cambiāvisset cambiāvissēmus cambiāvissētis cambiāvissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cambiā cambiāte
future cambiātō cambiātō cambiātōte cambiantō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives cambiāre cambiāvisse
participles cambiāns
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
cambiandī cambiandō cambiandum cambiandō

Synonyms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cambiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 124
  2. ^ cambio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

  • cambio 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)
  • cambio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 249.
  • cambio in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 943

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

cambio m (plural cambios)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of câmbio.

Etymology 2

Verb

cambio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkambjo/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ambjo
  • Syllabification: cam‧bio

Etymology 1

Deverbal from cambiar. Compare Italian cambio, Portuguese câmbio, and Catalan canvi.

Noun

cambio m (plural cambios)

  1. change, shift
  2. gear (of a motor vehicle)
  3. exchange rate
    El cambio es de 12 pesos mexicanos por dólar.
    The exchange rate is 12 mexican pesos to the dollar.
Derived terms
Related terms

Interjection

cambio

  1. (telecommunications) over
    ¡Cambio y corto!Over and out!

Etymology 2

Verb

cambio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

Further reading