transatlantic
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See also: trans-Atlantic
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
transatlantic (not comparable)
- (geography) On, spanning or crossing, or from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
- Many travellers via Fishguard regret the closing by British Transport Hotels & Catering Services of the Fishguard Bay Hotel, built by the G.W.R. early in the century for the expected transatlantic traffic.
Usage notes
- transatlantic is several times more common than trans-Atlantic.[1] GPO manual lists transatlantic as an exception to the recommendation that prefixing capitalized words should retain the capitalization and use a hyphen.[2]
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “situated on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean”): cisatlantic
Translations
spanning or crossing the Atlantic
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See also
References
- ^ (transatlantic*0.2), trans-Atlantic at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
Further reading
- “transatlantic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French transatlantique. By surface analysis, trans- + atlantic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
transatlantic m or n (feminine singular transatlantică, masculine plural transatlantici, feminine and neuter plural transatlantice)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | transatlantic | transatlantică | transatlantici | transatlantice | |||
| definite | transatlanticul | transatlantica | transatlanticii | transatlanticele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | transatlantic | transatlantice | transatlantici | transatlantice | |||
| definite | transatlanticului | transatlanticei | transatlanticelor | transatlanticilor | ||||