tranation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tranare, transnare (“to swim over”), from trans (“across, over”) + nare (“to swim”).
Noun edit
tranation (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) The act of swimming over.
- 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes Upon Don Quixot:
- In his Tranation he lookt about, and saw under him (though a farre off) his Lord upon Rosinante, no bigger than a Toad upon a Ducking-stoole.
References edit
- “tranation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.