• traçar (reintegrationist)

Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *tractiō, from Latin tractus.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: tra‧zar

trazar (first-person singular present trazo, first-person singular preterite tracei, past participle trazado)

1. (transitive) to trace, plot
2. (transitive) to plot, plan
   • 1810, José Fernandez y Neira, Proezas de Galicia:

     Mingote: «¿E ali tocaban as campanas para saber cando eles biñan?» Chinto: «Non, que ali trazaronche outra cousa millor. Como che abia abanzadas de paisanos en todas partes as alturas, cando sabian cos diabrillos biñan, encendianche us fachucos de palla, è erguianchos nus paus altos, è dùn-a noutra altura faciase esto con tal presteza, que no espacio dùn-a ora sabiachese no contorno de cinco è seis legoas, è co esto prebeniachese toda á xsente…»

     Mingote: «Did they use to ring the bells to make know when they [Napoleon's French soldiers] were coming?» Chinto: «No, because they plotted a better thing there: since there were advanced parties of countrymen in every high point, wherever they knew that the little devils were coming they lighted torches made of straw and put them atop high poles, and from one hill to the next this was made with such readiness that, in just an hour, everyone knew and was prevented all around in five and six leagues…»

3. (pronominal, of milk) to curdle

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trazar”, 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), “trazar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trazar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *tractiāre, from Latin tractus.

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈθaɾ/ [t̪ɾaˈθaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈsaɾ/ [t̪ɾaˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tra‧zar

trazar (first-person singular present trazo, first-person singular preterite tracé, past participle trazado)

1. (transitive) to trace
2. (transitive) to draw, to plot, to chart

   Debemos trazar un rumbo hacia la nave comandante.

   We should plot a course for the command ship.

• “trazar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025