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/tɾafiˈkante/

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Coloured illustration of traficante
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Translation

dealer, trafficker

Word origin

From traficar ('to trade, to traffic') plus the agent suffix -nte, from Italian trafficare ('to trade'), of uncertain origin. The same root gives English 'traffic'.

Origin
Italian
Root
trafficare
English cognates
traffic

Grammar

Gendercommon
Pluraltraficantes

Examples

.

The police arrested a trafficker at the border.

.

The dealer hid the goods in wooden crates.

secretas .

The traffickers used secret routes through the mountains.

.

That man turned out to be a much-wanted trafficker.

¿ ?

How did they manage to capture the trafficker?

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This word is part of lesson 52.