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Latin
Etymology
From trāns + -trum (“instrumental suffix”).
Pronunciation
Noun
trānstrum n (genitive trānstrī); second declension
- crossbeam, transom
- thwart of a vessel
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “transtrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “transtrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- transtrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “transtrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers