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English
Noun
trabs
- plural of trab
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *trabs, from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“wooden beam”). Cognate with Lithuanian troba, Dutch dorp, German Dorf, English thorp and English troop. Doublet of troppus.
Pronunciation
Noun
trabs f (genitive trabis); third declension
- timber, beam, rafter
- tree trunk
- penis
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “trabs, -is”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 626
Further reading
- “trabs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “trabs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- trabs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.