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

Related terms

• trafficare
• trafficante
• trafficatorio

Descendants

• → German: Trafik
• → Catalan: tràfic
• → Maltese: traffiku
• → Old French: traffic
  • Middle French: traffique, trafique
    • French: trafic
    • → English: traffic
    • → Swedish: trafik (via French or German)
    • → Turkish: trafik
• → Portuguese: tráfico
• → Spanish: tráfico
  • → Asturian: tráfigu, tráficu

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