tocar
Portuguese
/tuˈkaɾ/, /toˈkaʁ/
verb
Definitions
- to touch, to finger, to feel (tactually)
- (figurative) to start addressing (a particular subject or issue)
- to play (a musical instrument)
- to sound, jingle, to honk, to ring (a bell, alarm, horn or similar object)
- (informal) to kick out, to expulse
- (Brazil) to become aware; to realize or perceive something
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *tuccō.
Origin
Latin
*tuccō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *toccare Latin
- *tuccō Latin
- ritoccare Italian
- toccabile Italian
- toccamento Italian
- toccare Italian
- toccatore Italian
- tocar Spanish, Castilian
- tocador Portuguese
- tocante Portuguese
- tochier Old French
- tocar Catalan, Valencian
- toca Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- tocar Old Portuguese
- tocar Occitan
- tutgar Romansh
- tocar Asturian
- tocjâ Friulian
- *tukkōn Frankish
- tocar Venetian
- *toquer ONF.