trabs

English

Noun

trabs

1. 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. Doublet of troppus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

trabs f (genitive trabis); third declension

1. timber, beam, rafter
2. tree trunk
3. penis

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

• taberna
• trabāria
• trabea
• trabēcula
• trabica

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 (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: trau
    • Occitan: trau
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: trave
    • Galician: trabe
    • Portuguese: trave
  • Spanish: traba
    • → Basque: traba

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.