trazar
Galician
Etymology
Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *tractiō, from Latin tractus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tɾaˈθaɾ], (western) [tɾaˈsaɾ]
Verb
trazar (first-person singular present trazo, first-person singular preterite tracei, past participle trazado)
- (transitive) to trace, plot
- (transitive) to plot, plan
- 1810, José Fernandez y Neira, Proezas de Galicia:
- Mingote: «¿E ali tocaban as campanas para saber cando eles biñan?» Chinto: «Non, que ali trazaronche outra cousa millor. Como che abia abanzadas de paisanos en todas partes as alturas, cando sabian cos diabrillos biñan, encendianche us fachucos de palla, è erguianchos nus paus altos, è dùn-a noutra altura faciase esto con tal presteza, que no espacio dùn-a ora sabiachese no contorno de cinco è seis legoas, è co esto prebeniachese toda á xsente…»
- Mingote: «Did they use to ring the bells to make know when they [Napoleon's French soldiers] were coming?» Chinto: «No, because they plotted a better thing there: since there were advanced parties of countrymen in every high point, wherever they knew that the little devils were coming they lighted torches made of straw and put them atop high poles, and from one hill to the next this was made with such readiness that, in just an hour, everyone knew and was prevented all around in five and six leagues…»
- Mingote: «¿E ali tocaban as campanas para saber cando eles biñan?» Chinto: «Non, que ali trazaronche outra cousa millor. Como che abia abanzadas de paisanos en todas partes as alturas, cando sabian cos diabrillos biñan, encendianche us fachucos de palla, è erguianchos nus paus altos, è dùn-a noutra altura faciase esto con tal presteza, que no espacio dùn-a ora sabiachese no contorno de cinco è seis legoas, è co esto prebeniachese toda á xsente…»
- 1810, José Fernandez y Neira, Proezas de Galicia:
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, of milk) to curdle
Conjugation
- Note: traz- are changed to trac- before front vowels (e).
Conjugation of trazar
| singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| person | first | second | third | first | second | third |
| Infinitive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| impersonal | trazar | |||||
| personal | trazar | trazares | trazar | trazarmos | trazardes | trazaren |
| Gerund | ||||||
| trazando | ||||||
| Past participle | singular | plural | ||||
| masculine | trazado | trazados | ||||
| feminine | trazada | trazadas | ||||
| Indicative | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| present | trazo | trazas | traza | trazamos | trazades | trazan |
| imperfect | trazaba | trazabas | trazaba | trazabamos | trazabades | trazaban |
| preterite | tracei | trazaches | trazou | trazamos | trazastes | trazaron |
| pluperfect | trazara | trazaras | trazara | trazaramos | trazarades | trazaran |
| future | trazarei | trazarás | trazará | trazaremos | trazaredes | trazarán |
| conditional | trazaría | trazarías | trazaría | trazariamos | trazariades | trazarían |
| Subjunctive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| present | trace | traces | trace | tracemos | tracedes | tracen |
| preterite | trazase | trazases | trazase | trazásemos | trazásedes | trazasen |
| future | trazar | trazares | trazar | trazarmos | trazardes | trazaren |
| Imperative | – | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| affirmative | – | traza | trace | tracemos | trazade | tracen |
| negative | – | traces | trace | tracemos | tracedes | tracen |
Related terms
- traza
- trazado
- trazador
- trazo
- treito
References
- “trazar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “trazar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “trazar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *tractiō, from Latin tractus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /tɾaˈθaɾ/ [t̪ɾaˈθaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /tɾaˈsaɾ/ [t̪ɾaˈsaɾ]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: tra‧zar
Verb
trazar (first-person singular present trazo, first-person singular preterite tracé, past participle trazado)
- (transitive) to trace
- (transitive) to draw, to plot, to chart
- Debemos trazar un rumbo hacia la nave comandante.
- We should plot a course for the command ship.
Conjugation
Conjugation of trazar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | trazar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | trazando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | trazado | trazada | |||||
| plural | trazados | trazadas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | trazo | trazastú trazásvos | traza | trazamos | trazáis | trazan | |
| imperfect | trazaba | trazabas | trazaba | trazábamos | trazabais | trazaban | |
| preterite | tracé | trazaste | trazó | trazamos | trazasteis | trazaron | |
| future | trazaré | trazarás | trazará | trazaremos | trazaréis | trazarán | |
| conditional | trazaría | trazarías | trazaría | trazaríamos | trazaríais | trazarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | trace | tracestú tracésvos2 | trace | tracemos | tracéis | tracen | |
| imperfect (ra) | trazara | trazaras | trazara | trazáramos | trazarais | trazaran | |
| imperfect (se) | trazase | trazases | trazase | trazásemos | trazaseis | trazasen | |
| future1 | trazare | trazares | trazare | trazáremos | trazareis | trazaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | trazatú trazávos | trace | tracemos | trazad | tracen | ||
| negative | no traces | no trace | no tracemos | no tracéis | no tracen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of trazar (c-z alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive trazar | |||||||
| dative | trazarme | trazarte | trazarle, trazarse | trazarnos | trazaros | trazarles, trazarse | |
| accusative | trazarme | trazarte | trazarlo, trazarla, trazarse | trazarnos | trazaros | trazarlos, trazarlas, trazarse | |
| with gerund trazando | |||||||
| dative | trazándome | trazándote | trazándole, trazándose | trazándonos | trazándoos | trazándoles, trazándose | |
| accusative | trazándome | trazándote | trazándolo, trazándola, trazándose | trazándonos | trazándoos | trazándolos, trazándolas, trazándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative traza | |||||||
| dative | trázame | trázate | trázale | trázanos | not used | trázales | |
| accusative | trázame | trázate | trázalo, trázala | trázanos | not used | trázalos, trázalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative trazá | |||||||
| dative | trazame | trazate | trazale | trazanos | not used | trazales | |
| accusative | trazame | trazate | trazalo, trazala | trazanos | not used | trazalos, trazalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative trace | |||||||
| dative | tráceme | not used | trácele, trácese | trácenos | not used | tráceles | |
| accusative | tráceme | not used | trácelo, trácela, trácese | trácenos | not used | trácelos, trácelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative tracemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | tracémoste | tracémosle | tracémonos | tracémoos | tracémosles | |
| accusative | not used | tracémoste | tracémoslo, tracémosla | tracémonos | tracémoos | tracémoslos, tracémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative trazad | |||||||
| dative | trazadme | not used | trazadle | trazadnos | trazaos | trazadles | |
| accusative | trazadme | not used | trazadlo, trazadla | trazadnos | trazaos | trazadlos, trazadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative tracen | |||||||
| dative | trácenme | not used | trácenle | trácennos | not used | trácenles, trácense | |
| accusative | trácenme | not used | trácenlo, trácenla | trácennos | not used | trácenlos, trácenlas, trácense | |
Derived terms
- traza
- trazo
Related terms
- traer
- tratar
- trecho
Further reading
- “trazar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014