Definitions
social or verbal interchange (usually followed by ‘with’)
Word origin
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-”).
Used in a sentence
“The traffic is slow during rush hour.”
“VVhoſe miſaduentures, piteous ouerthrovves, / (Through the continuing of their Fathers ſtrife, / And death-markt paſſage of their Parents rage) / Is novv the tvvo hovvres traffique of our Stage.”
“I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Cars on the road”7 letters
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