traffico

See also: trafficò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtraf.fi.ko/
  • Rhymes: -affiko
  • Hyphenation: tràf‧fi‧co

Etymology 1

Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcō (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”). Cognate with Piedmontese tràfich/tràfic and Sicilian tràficu.

Noun

traffico m (plural traffici)

  1. traffic
  2. trade
  3. activity, rush
Descendants
  • → German: Trafik
  • → Catalan: tràfic
  • → Maltese: traffiku
  • → Old French: traffic
  • → Portuguese: tráfico
  • → Spanish: tráfico

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

traffico

  1. first-person singular present indicative of trafficare

Further reading

  • traffico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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