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Etymology

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-”). The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective.

derived from trapik
derived from تَفْرِيق
derived from *trānsfrīcāre✻
derived from traffico
borrowed from trafique

Definitions

1
Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- 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.
2
The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or…
The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
- 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
- Its units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
3
The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- They, in turn, had long dominated the drug traffic in the area of north-east Afghanistan that they controlled during the Taliban years.
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1. 4
  The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone…
  The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
  - 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.
  - 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.
2. 5
  The commodities of the market.
  - You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
3. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or…
  To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
4. To trade meanly or mercenarily
  To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
5. To exchange in traffic
  To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
6. 9
  Congested.
  - It’s super traffic here in Manila.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at traffic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at traffic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at traffic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.