trabs

English edit

Noun edit

trabs

plural of trab

Latin edit

Etymology edit

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]

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /trabs/, [t̪räps̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trabs/, [t̪räbs]

Noun edit

trabs f (genitive trabis); third declension

Declension edit

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 edit

Descendants edit

Basque: traba
Dalmatian: trua
English: trave
French: travée
Italian: trave
Old French: trave, tref
- → Catalan: treu
- → Galician: treu
- → Spanish: treo
Old Occitan: trau, *trave
- Catalan: trava
- Occitan: trau
Old Galician-Portuguese: trave
- Galician: trabe
- Portuguese: trave
Piedmontese: trav
Sicilian: travu
Spanish: traba

References edit

“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.

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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