traffic – English noun declension

English noun forms of traffic

Noun: traffic
Singulartraffic
Pluraltraffics

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], “The Prologue”, in […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC:]
  • I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians). [1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:]
  • To assume that the recent investigation of the white slave traffic (and, by the way, a very superficial investigation) has discovered anything new, is, to say the least, very foolish [1910, Emma Goldman, “The Traffic in Women”, in Anarchism and Other Essays:]
  • Its units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents. [2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, page 12:]
  • They, in turn, had long dominated the drug traffic in the area of north-east Afghanistan that they controlled during the Taliban years. [2018 January 9, Alfred W. McCoy, “How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot. [1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:]
  • Internet traffic to legal pornography sites in the UK comprised 8.5% of all "clicks" on web pages in June – exceeding those for shopping, news, business or social networks, according to new data obtained exclusively by the Guardian. [2013 July 26, Charles Arthur, “Porn sites get more internet traffic in UK than social networks or shopping”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic. [1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)]
  • You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear. [1716, John Gay, Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London:]

Etymology

1. 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-”).
2. The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective. See: Italian Nouns 'traffico'.

Verbs referencing "traffic"

French Nouns trafic, Russian Nouns трафик.