traer

traer

1. alternative form of trayer

• Reference http://www.academiadelallingua.com/diccionariu/gramatica_llingua.pdf

• traguer, traiguer
• trazer (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese traer (“to betray, deliver”), from Latin trahere (“to pull, drag”).

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈeɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Hyphenation: tra‧er

traer (first-person singular present traio, first-person singular preterite trouxen, past participle traído)

1. to bring
2. to wear
   • 1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:

     Estóu debendo na tenda
     A chamarra que hoje trago
     E o somonte dos calzós
     Que ja estan feitos farrapos;

     I owe to the shop
     the coat I wear today
     and the cloth of the pants,
     which are already in tatters

3. (rare) to bear
   • 1812, Antonio Benito Fandiño, A Casamenteira:

     Ai tontiño, porque iñoras
     o qu’he mantér casa e vida,
     que por ben que estea sortida,
     hai faltas a todas horas.
     O segundo, que teu pai
     pensa com’home de ben,
     e así por vergonza ten
     unha nora que non trai.
     Orasme, sobr’esto hai,
     que a dous parizós que teña,
     non tendes donde vos veña,
     cando ela non colla un mal.

     Oh, silly, because you don't know
     what it is to keep house and life,
     no matter how well stocked it is,
     there's lack at all hours.
     Second, your father
     thinks like a good man,
     and to his shame he has
     a daughter-in-law who doesn't bear.
     However, on this matter,
     with just two childbirths that she has,
     you'll be left resourceless,
     and that if she doesn't get sick.

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “traer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “traer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “traer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “traer”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Inherited from Latin trādō, from trāns + dō.

traer

1. (transitive) to betray (to deliver into the hands of an enemy)
   • 1460, Rui Vasques, edited by J. A. Souto Cabo, Choronica de Iria:

     Et alguus seus ynjmjgos por zelo de envidia diserõ a el rrey que el que queria traer o rreyno de Galiza, et o queria tirar a el rrey et darllo aos Jngreses et normanos, seus ynimjgos.

     And some people, enemies of him, because of envy told the king that he wanted to deliver the Kingdom of Galicia, that he wanted to take it from the king and give it to the Englishmen and the Normans, his enemies.

2. (transitive) to betray (to prove faithless or treacherous)

• Portuguese: trair

traer

1. alternative form of trager

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “traer¹”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “traer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “traer”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “traer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “traer”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Latin trahō, trahere.

• traher, trayer

traer

1. (transitive) to bring
   • 1270 – 1284, Alfonso X, Estoria de España 2:

     Desí el Rey assentosse en su siella & el çid dixo, "sennor, do mandades que me assiente con estos mios parientes & mios vassallos que aqui traxe comigo".

     And so the king sat on his chair, and the Cid said, "my lord, where do you order me to sit with my family and vassals, whom I brought here with me"?

2. (transitive) to drag something on the ground
3. (transitive) to throw something, hurl
4. (transitive) to carry something, wear (pieces of clothes)
   • 1140 – 1207, anonymous, Cid 470-471:

     Mio çid Ruy diaz por las puertas entraua / En mano t͠ae deſnuda el eſpada

     My Cid, Ruy Díaz, was going in through the doors, and in his hand he carries his sword unsheathed

   • 1140 – 1207, anonymous, Cid 1587:

     Viſtios el ſobregonel luenga trahe la barba

     He put on his fine tunic, donning a long beard

• Spanish: traer

From Latin trādō, trādere (“to hand something over; give up, abandon”), derived from dō, dare (“to give”).

traer

1. (transitive, up to 13th century) to betray someone, be disloyal to
   • 1251 – 1285, anonymous, Fuero de Úbeda:

     Esto por tal es dicho: que muchas vezes conteçio que ay algunos que quieren traer la villa, & ffizieron ençendymiento que, demientre los omnes fuesen al fuego amatar, ellos abrieron las puertas & rresçibieron los enemjgos.

     This is said for the following reason: it has happened many times that there were some who wanted to betray the village, and so they started a fire, and as everyone went to stop the fire, they opened the gates and received the enemy.

• (to bring): Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983) “traer”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 575
• (to betray): Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “dar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 426

Inherited from Old Spanish traer, from Vulgar Latin *traiēre, from Latin trahere (“to pull, drag”).

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈeɾ/

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: tra‧er

traer (first-person singular present traigo, first-person singular preterite traje, past participle traído)

1. to bring, to fetch

   Antonym: llevar

   ¿Qué te trae por aquí? ― What brings you here?

   Voy a traerle una cerveza ― I'm going to bring you a beer.

2. to attract, draw, pull
3. to bring about, cause, occasion
4. to make (cause to be in or have a certain condition or state)

   Oye, me traes intranquilo. ― Listen, you make me restless.

5. to wear (ellipsis of traer puesto)

   Synonym: (ellipsis of llevar puesto) llevar

6. to bring forward, advance, adduce
7. to make, compel, oblige
8. to persuade
9. to have, carry (in a publication, in stock)
10. to include (have as a component, part, accessory or ingredient)

    Synonym: llevar

• Since, in the sense of "carry" or "move", traer and llevar indicate direction from or to a certain place, these verbs are antonyms in the origin and destination. Between certain places, however, they are used as synonyms.

• cargar
• acarrear

• “traer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10