trabs

English

Noun

trabs

plural of trab

Anagrams

abstr., brats, T-bars, brast, Barts

Latin

Etymology

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] Doublet of troppus.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtraps]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪rabs]

Noun

trabs f (genitive trabis); third declension

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trabs	trabēs
genitive	trabis	trabum
dative	trabī	trabibus
accusative	trabem	trabēs
ablative	trabe	trabibus
vocative	trabs	trabēs

Derived terms

Descendants

Italo-Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: trua
- Italian: trave
- Sicilian: travu
Gallo-Italic:
- Piedmontese: trav
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: trava
  - Catalan: trava
- Old French: trave, trev, tref, treif
  - Middle French: tref
  - Middle French: trave
    - French: travée
    - → Middle English: trave, trawe
      - English: trave
  - → Catalan: treu
  - → Galician: treu
  - → Spanish: treo
- Old Occitan: trau
  - Occitan: trau
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: trave
  - Galician: trabe
  - Portuguese: trave
- Spanish: traba
  - → Basque: traba

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “trabs, -is”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 626

Further reading

“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.