cambio

cambio (plural cambios)

1. (Guyana) bureau de change; currency exchange

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

From Old Galician-Portuguese cambio, from Late Latin cambium (“change”), from Latin cambiō (“I change”), from a Celtic language, from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“crooked; bent”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh₂emb- (“bent”). Cognate with Portuguese câmbio and Spanish cambio.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑmbjʊ]

cambio m (plural cambios)

1. change
2. loose change

   Synonym: solto

3. exchange, swap

   Synonym: troco

• “cambio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cambio” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cambio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cambio” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cambio” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkam.bjo/
• Rhymes: -ambjo
• Hyphenation: càm‧bio

From verb cambiare from Vulgar Latin cambiāre (“to change, exchange”) from Late Latin cambiō, or from corresponding noun Latin cambium (“change”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). Compare Spanish cambio and Portuguese câmbio.

cambio m (plural cambi)

1. exchange

   Synonym: scambio

2. change

   Synonyms: cambiamento, sostituzione

3. gear, stickshift (of a motor vehicle)

• cambio della guardia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiare

• imbaco

From cambium (“change”), from Gaulish cambion (“change”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). Compare Ancient Greek κάμπτω (kámptō, “to bend, curve, turn”).

• (Proto-Romance) IPA^(key): /ˈkambʲo/
• (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance) IPA^(key): /ˈkambʲo/

cambiō (present infinitive cambiāre, perfect active cambiāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem (Late Latin)

1. exchange, barter; change

According to ancient grammarians, this verb originally belonged to the fourth conjugation with the present infinitive cambīre and the perfect stem camps-. However, Romance forms are descended from a first conjugation version with the present infinitive cambiāre and the perfect stem cambiāv-. These forms appear in texts from the 6th century CE.

• (exchange, barter): mūtō, permūtō

• “cambio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cambio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cambio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 249
• cambio in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, 8th edition, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 943

cambio m (plural cambios)

1. Obsolete spelling of câmbio

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

Deverbal from cambiar. Compare Italian cambio, Portuguese câmbio, and Catalan canvi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambjo/ [ˈkãm.bjo]

• Audio (Latin America)

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• Rhymes: -ambjo
• Syllabification: cam‧bio

cambio m (plural cambios)

1. change, shift
2. exchange rate

   El cambio es de 12 pesos mexicanos por dólar.

   The exchange rate is 12 mexican pesos to the dollar.

3. gear (of a motor vehicle)

cambio

1. (telecommunications) over

   ¡Cambio y corto! ― Over and out!

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

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