traça

See also: traca, tracą, trąca, and trącą

Catalan

Etymology 1

Deverbal from traçar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾa.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾa.sa]

Noun

traça f (plural traces)

1. trace

   Hi ha traces de pigment ocre groc sota d'una prima capa de calç.

   There are traces of yellow ochre underneath a thin layer of chalk.

2. track, trail

   Hem seguit la traça d'un seguit de gent que ens anava a davant.

   We followed the trail of a series of people which led us forward.

3. plan, scheme
4. skill, dexterity

Derived terms

• pocatraça
• traçut

Further reading

• “traça” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “traça”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “traça” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “traça” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Verb

traça

1. inflection of traçar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Verb

traça

1. third-person singular past historic of tracer

Occitan

Etymology

from Vulgar Latin *tractiō, from Latin tractum the past participle of trahō.

Pronunciation

• (Languedoc) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.so̞/
• (Provençal) IPA^(key): /ˈtʀa.so̞/

• Audio (Languedoc):

  (file)

Noun

traça f (plural traças)

1. (Languedoc, Provençal, Vivaro-alpine, Gascony) trace
2. footprint
3. mark, impression

See also

• traçar
• traçaire
• traçat
• traçament

Dialectal variants

• traç (Gascon)

Synonyms

• marca
• mèrca
• tralha
• peada
• pedada
• arroderada
• traversada
• pesada
• emprenta
• trèu
• patada
• piada

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.sɐ/

• Rhymes: -asɐ
• Hyphenation: tra‧ça

Etymology 1

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Noun

traça f (plural traças)

1. moth
2. bristletail, silverfish (also called traça-de-livros, bicho-de-prata or lepisma)

See also

• borboleta (“butterfly”)

Etymology 2

Verb

traça

1. inflection of traçar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative