Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to traffic
Participle: trafficked
Gerund: trafficking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | traffic |
| you | traffic |
| he;she;it | traffics |
| we | traffic |
| you | traffic |
| they | traffic |
Perfect
| I | have trafficked |
| you | have trafficked |
| he;she;it | has trafficked |
| we | have trafficked |
| you | have trafficked |
| they | have trafficked |
Past
| I | trafficked |
| you | trafficked |
| he;she;it | trafficked |
| we | trafficked |
| you | trafficked |
| they | trafficked |
Pluperfect
| I | had trafficked |
| you | had trafficked |
| he;she;it | had trafficked |
| we | had trafficked |
| you | had trafficked |
| they | had trafficked |
Future
| I | will traffic |
| you | will traffic |
| he;she;it | will traffic |
| we | will traffic |
| you | will traffic |
| they | will traffic |
Future Perfect
| I | will have trafficked |
| you | will have trafficked |
| he;she;it | will have trafficked |
| we | will have trafficked |
| you | will have trafficked |
| they | will have trafficked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | traffic |
| you | traffic |
| he;she;it | traffic |
| we | traffic |
| you | traffic |
| they | traffic |
Perfect
| I | have trafficked |
| you | have trafficked |
| he;she;it | have trafficked |
| we | have trafficked |
| you | have trafficked |
| they | have trafficked |
Imperfect
| I | trafficked |
| you | trafficked |
| he;she;it | trafficked |
| we | trafficked |
| you | trafficked |
| they | trafficked |
Pluperfect
| I | had trafficked |
| you | had trafficked |
| he;she;it | had trafficked |
| we | had trafficked |
| you | had trafficked |
| they | had trafficked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would traffic |
| you | would traffic |
| he;she;it | would traffic |
| we | would traffic |
| you | would traffic |
| they | would traffic |
Perfect
| I | would have trafficked |
| you | would have trafficked |
| he;she;it | would have trafficked |
| we | would have trafficked |
| you | would have trafficked |
| they | would have trafficked |
Imperative
| you | traffic |
| we | Let's traffic |
| you | traffic |
Verbs conjugated like 'traffic'
bivouac,
critic,
fabric,
frolic,
havoc,
limbec,
mimic,
physic,
picnic,
prognostic,
rollic,
rubric,
traffic,
zinc,
Verbs similar to 'traffic'
traffick,
affix,
graff,
graffiti,
maffick,
paraffin,
raff,
raffle,
reaffix,
takfir,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money
- exchange, merchandise, trade, wrixle
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1505, "trade, commerce," from M.Fr.
trafique (1441), from It.
traffico (1323), from
trafficare "carry on trade," of uncertain origin, perhaps from a V.L.
*transfricare "to rub across" (from L.
trans- "across" +
fricare "to rub"), with the original sense of the It. verb being "touch repeatedly, handle." Or the second element may be an unexplained alteration of L.
facere "to make, do." Klein suggests ultimate derivation of the It. word from Arabic
tafriq "distribution." Meaning "people and vehicles coming and going" first recorded 1825. The verb is from 1542 (and preserves the original commercial sense).
Traffic jam is 1917, ousting earlier
traffic block (1895).
2. From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“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-”).
3. The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective.
Verbs referencing "traffic"
Galician
trasfegar, Hungarian
trafikál.
Sample Sentences
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A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase. [1912, The World's Wit and Humor, page 176:]