trotar

Ultimately from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”).

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite trotí, past participle trotat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (intransitive) to trot
2. (intransitive) to rush, to walk hurriedly

• trot
• trotada
• trotador

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

From Old French trotter, from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”). See trot.

• IPA^(key): /tɾɔˈtaɾ/

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite trotei, past participle trotado)

1. (intransitive, of a horse) to trot (to move at a gait between a walk and a canter)
   • 1409, José Luis Tomé Pensado, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:

     Et pois ueer tenpo frio deuenno cauallgar et fazerlle trotar porllas margẽes et porllas aradas mansamente pella mañaa

     And after the cold weather come, they should ride the colt and make him trot by the margins and by the ploughed fields gently in the morning

2. (intransitive) to ride a trotting mount

• trote
• trotón

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “trot”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trotar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “trotar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “trotar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “trotar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trotar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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trotar (present tense trotas, past tense trotis, future tense trotos, imperative trotez, conditional trotus)

1. to trot

    Conjugation of trotar

		present		past		future
infinitive		trotar		trotir		trotor
tense		trotas		trotis		trotos
conditional		trotus
imperative		trotez
adjective active participle		trotanta		trotinta		trotonta
adverbial active participle		trotante		trotinte		trotonte
nominal active participle	singular	trotanto		trotinto		trotonto
	plural	trotanti		trotinti		trotonti
adjective passive participle		trotata		trotita		trotota
adverbial passive participle		trotate		trotite		trotote
nominal passive participle	singular	trotato		trotito		trototo
	plural	trotati		trotiti		trototi

• troteskar (“to fall into a trot”)
• trotigar (“to cause to trot”)

From French trotter or Italian trottare, from Medieval Latin trottāre, from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). See trot.

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite trotei, past participle trotado)

1. (intransitive, of a horse) to trot (to move at a gait between a walk and a canter)

• trote

• “trotar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from French trotter or Italian trottare, from Medieval Latin trottāre, from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). See English trot.

• IPA^(key): /tɾoˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tro‧tar

trotar (first-person singular present troto, first-person singular preterite troté, past participle trotado)

1. (intransitive, of a horse) to trot (to move at a gait between a walk and a canter)
2. (intransitive) to jog

• “trotar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10