cambio

Borrowed from Spanish or Portuguese cambio.

cambio (plural cambios)

1. (Guyana) bureau de change; currency exchange

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

Inherited from Spanish cambio (“change”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambjo/, [ˈkãm.bjo]
• Hyphenation: cam‧bio

cambio

1. change; replacement

• cámbio, câmbio (reintegrationist)

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.

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

cambio m (plural cambios)

1. change
2. loose change

   Synonym: solto

3. exchange, swap

   Synonym: troco

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cambio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cambio”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkam.bjo/^[1]
• Homophone: Cambio
• Rhymes: -ambjo
• Hyphenation: càm‧bio

Deverbal from cambiare +‎ -o. From verb cambiare inherited 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.

cambio m (plural cambi, relational adjective cambiale)

1. exchange

   Synonym: scambio

2. change

   Synonyms: cambiamento, sostituzione

3. gear, stickshift (of a motor vehicle)
4. (botany, anatomy) cambium

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiare

• imbaco

From cambium (“exchange”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix), the first element of Gaulish origin. Attested in this form from the 5th century CE,^[1] but also found earlier in the fourth-conjugation form cambiō, cambīre.^[2]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkam.bi.o]

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

1. to exchange, barter; change

• (exchange, barter): mūtō, permūtō

• "cambio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

cambio m (plural cambios)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambjo/ [ˈkãm.bjo]

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• Rhymes: -ambjo
• Syllabification: cam‧bio

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

cambio m (plural cambios)

1. change, shift

   Si te sientes mal, quizás solo necesites un cambio de aires.

   If you feel bad, maybe you just need a change of scenery.

2. gear (of a motor vehicle)
3. exchange rate

   El cambio es de veinte pesos mexicanos por dólar.

   The exchange rate is twenty mexican pesos to the dollar.

cambio

1. (telecommunications) over

   ¡Cambio y fuera! ― Over and out!

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cambio

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambiar

• “cambio”, 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