trotar

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

• trot
• trotada
• trotador

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾɔˈtaɾ/

Verb

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

Conjugation

Related terms

• trote
• trotón

References

• “trot” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “trotar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “trotar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “trotar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “trotar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “trotar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

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Verb

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

1. to trot

Conjugation

    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

Derived terms

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

Portuguese

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Verb

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)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• trote

Further reading

• “trotar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “trotar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014