cambio

See also: cambió, cambiò, and câmbio

English

Noun

cambio (plural cambios)

1. (Guyana) bureau de change; currency exchange

Asturian

Verb

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

Galician

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cambio, from Late Latin cambium (“change”), from Latin cambiō (“to 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambjo/ [ˈkɑm.bjʊ]
• Rhymes: -ambjo
• Hyphenation: cam‧bio

Noun

cambio m (plural cambios)

1. change
2. loose change

   Synonym: solto

3. exchange, swap

   Synonym: troco

Related terms

• camba
• cambiar
• cambota
• canga
• cangallo
• cango
• concambio

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cambio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cambio”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cambio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cambio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cambio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

cambio m (plural cambi)

1. exchange

   Synonym: scambio

2. change

   Synonyms: cambiamento, sostituzione

3. gear, stickshift (of a motor vehicle)

Derived terms

• cambio della guardia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiare

Anagrams

• imbaco

Latin

Etymology

From cambium (“exchange”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix), the first element of Gaulish origin. Attested in this form from the 5th century CE, but also found earlier in the fourth-conjugation form cambiō, cambīre.

Verb

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

1. to exchange, barter; change

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cambiō (first conjugation, no supine stem, active only)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cambiō	cambiās	cambiat	cambiāmus	cambiātis	cambiant
	imperfect	cambiābam	cambiābās	cambiābat	cambiābāmus	cambiābātis	cambiābant
	future	cambiābō	cambiābis	cambiābit	cambiābimus	cambiābitis	cambiābunt
	perfect	cambiāvī	cambiāvistī	cambiāvit	cambiāvimus	cambiāvistis	cambiāvērunt, cambiāvēre
	pluperfect	cambiāveram	cambiāverās	cambiāverat	cambiāverāmus	cambiāverātis	cambiāverant
	future perfect	cambiāverō	cambiāveris	cambiāverit	cambiāverimus	cambiāveritis	cambiāverint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cambiem	cambiēs	cambiet	cambiēmus	cambiētis	cambient
imperfect	cambiārem	cambiārēs	cambiāret	cambiārēmus	cambiārētis	cambiārent
perfect	cambiāverim	cambiāverīs	cambiāverit	cambiāverīmus	cambiāverītis	cambiāverint
pluperfect	cambiāvissem	cambiāvissēs	cambiāvisset	cambiāvissēmus	cambiāvissētis	cambiāvissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	cambiā	—	—	cambiāte	—
	future	—	cambiātō	cambiātō	—	cambiātōte	cambiantō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		cambiāre	cambiāvisse	—	—	—	—
participles		cambiāns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		cambiandī	cambiandō	cambiandum	cambiandō	—	—

Synonyms

• (exchange, barter): mūtō, permūtō

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • → Albanian: këmbej
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cambiare
  • Neapolitan: cagnà
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: gambiâ
  • Ligurian: cangiâ
  • Lombard: cambiar
  • Piedmontese: cambié, cangé
  • Venetan: canbiar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: canviar
  • Franco-Provençal: changiér
  • Old French: changier (see there for further descendants)
  • Gascon: cambiar
  • Occitan: cambiar

    Auvergnat: chamjar

    Limousin: chamjar, chamnhar

    Vivaro-Alpine: chambiar

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cambiar
    • Galician: cambiar
    • Portuguese: cambiar
  • Spanish: cambiar
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: cambiai, cambiare, cammiare, ciambare
• Vulgar Latin: *excambiāre (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• 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, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 943

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

cambio m (plural cambios)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of câmbio.

Etymology 2

Verb

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambjo/ [ˈkãm.bjo]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ambjo
• Syllabification: cam‧bio

Etymology 1

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

Noun

cambio m (plural cambios)

1. change, shift
2. gear (of a motor vehicle)
3. exchange rate

   El cambio es de 12 pesos mexicanos por dólar.

   The exchange rate is 12 mexican pesos to the dollar.

Derived terms

• a cambio
• a cambio de
• a las primeras de cambio
• bajar un cambio
• caja de cambios
• cambio climático
• cambio de aros
• cambio de humor (“mood swing”)
• cambio de juego (“game changer”)
• cambio de marchas
• cambio de sentido
• cambio de velocidades
• cambio fonético
• cambio y fuera
• casa de cambio
• contrato de cambio
• en cambio
• en cambio de
• letra de cambio
• mesa de cambios
• palanca de cambios
• tasa de cambio
• tipo de cambio
• valor de cambio

 

Related terms

• cambiar (verb)
• cambiazo

 

Interjection

cambio

1. (telecommunications) over

   ¡Cambio y corto! ― Over and out!

Etymology 2

Verb

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

Further reading

• “cambio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10