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TRAFFIC , properly the interchange or passing of goods or merchandise between persons, communities or countries, See also:

commerce or See also:

trade. The See also:

TERM

term in current usage is chiefly applied collectively to the goods, passengers, vehicles and vessels passing to and fro over the streets, roads, See also:

sea, See also:

rivers, canals, See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, &c. The origin of the word is obscure. It occurs in Fr. trafique, and trafiquer, Ital. traffico, trafficare, Sp. trafago, trafagar. Du Cange (See also:

GLOSS, GLOSSARY

Gloss. Med. et Inf. See also:

Lat.) quotes the use of traffigare from a treaty between See also:

Milan and See also:

Venice of 138o, and gives other variants of the word in See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval Latin. There is a medieval Latin word transfegator, an explorer, See also:

spy, investigator (see Du Cange, op. cit., s.v.) which occurs as See also:

early as 1243, and is stated to be from transfegare, a corruption of transfretare, to See also:

CROSS

cross over the sea (trans, across, fretum, gulf, strait, channel). See also:

Diez (Etymologisches Worterbuch der romanischen Sprachen) connects the word with See also:

PORT

Port. lrasfegar, to decant, which he traces to See also:

LATE

Late Lat. vicare, to See also:

EXCHANGE

exchange, Lat. vicis, See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change, turn. A See also:

SUGGESTION

suggestion (See also:

ATHENAEUM

Athenaeum, app. 7, 1900) has been made that it is to he referred to a late See also:

HEBREW

Hebrew corruption (traffik) of Gr. rpoira.e6c, pertaining to a See also:

TROPHY (Gr. Tpo7rauov, from TpE7rw, put to flight; Lat. tropaeum)

trophy, applied to a See also:

SILVER

silver See also:

coin with the figure of victory upon it and termed in Latin vi.ctoriatus.

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