transcontinental
See also: trans-continental
English edit
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Adjective edit
transcontinental (not comparable)
- Crossing or spanning a continent.
- 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 554:
- It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.
Translations edit
crossing a continent
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Noun edit
transcontinental (plural transcontinentals)
French edit
Etymology edit
From trans- + continental.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
transcontinental (feminine transcontinentale, masculine plural transcontinentaux, feminine plural transcontinentales)
Further reading edit
- “transcontinental”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French transcontinental. By surface analysis, trans- + continental.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
transcontinental m or n (feminine singular transcontinentală, masculine plural transcontinentali, feminine and neuter plural transcontinentale)
Declension edit
Declension of transcontinental
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | transcontinental | transcontinentală | transcontinentali | transcontinentale | ||
definite | transcontinentalul | transcontinentala | transcontinentalii | transcontinentalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | transcontinental | transcontinentale | transcontinentali | transcontinentale | ||
definite | transcontinentalului | transcontinentalei | transcontinentalilor | transcontinentalelor |
Further reading edit
- transcontinental in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From trans- + continental.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /tɾanskontinenˈtal/ [t̪ɾãns.kõn̪.t̪i.nẽn̪ˈt̪al]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: trans‧con‧ti‧nen‧tal
Adjective edit
transcontinental m or f (masculine and feminine plural transcontinentales)
Further reading edit
- “transcontinental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014