trabs

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English

Noun

trabs

  1. 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.[1] Doublet of troppus.

Pronunciation

Noun

trabs f (genitive trabis); third declension

  1. timber, beam, rafter
  2. tree trunk
  3. penis

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative trabs trabēs
Genitive trabis trabum
Dative trabī trabibus
Accusative trabem trabēs
Ablative trabe trabibus
Vocative trabs trabēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ 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.
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