trama

See also: tramá, tramã, and tramă

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trāma. Doublet of tram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪmə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

trama (plural tramas or tramae)

1. (mycology) The inner, fleshy portion of a mushroom's basidiocarp, distinct from the outer pileipellis or cuticle and from the spore-bearing hymenium.

Derived terms

• gill trama
• hymenophoral trama
• lamellar trama

Anagrams

• MARTA, Marta, Matar, Tamar, Tamra, matra

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• drama

Etymology

From Middle High German troumen, variant (with Upper German umlaut hindrance before labial) of tröumen, from Proto-Germanic *draumijaną.

Verb

trama

1. to dream

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾa.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾa.ma]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan trama, from Latin trama.

Noun

trama f (plural trames)

1. weft, woof
2. plot (the course of a story)

Derived terms

• subtrama

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trama

1. inflection of tramar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “trama” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “trama”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Verb

trama

1. third-person singular past historic of tramer

Anagrams

• armât, ramât

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin trama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɾamɐ]

Noun

trama m (plural tramas)

1. woof, weft

   Synonym: tapume

2. plot

   Synonyms: argallada, intriga

3. weave, texture

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trama”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “trama”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trama”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtra.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: trà‧ma

Etymology 1

From Latin trāma (“woof, weft”).

Noun

trama f (plural trame)

1. plot

   Synonyms: intreccio, intrigo

2. weave, texture, weft

Related terms

• tramare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trama

1. inflection of tramare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• Marta, tarma

Latin

Etymology

From the root of trahō (“I drag”). For the ending, compare rīma, flamma, līma.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtraː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtraː.ma]

Noun

trāma f (genitive trāmae); first declension

1. (of fabric) woof, weft

   Synonym: subtēmen

   Antonym: stāmen

2. (by extension) A lean, lanky person.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trāma	trāmae
genitive	trāmae	trāmārum
dative	trāmae	trāmīs
accusative	trāmam	trāmās
ablative	trāmā	trāmīs
vocative	trāma	trāmae

Descendants

• Aromanian: tramã
• Catalan: trama
• → English: trama
• French: trame
• Friulian: trame
• Italian: trama
• Occitan: trama
• Portuguese: trama
• Romanian: tramă
• Spanish: trama
• Venetan: trama

References

• “trama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "trama", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “trama”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “trama”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “trama”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 699

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin trāma (“woof, fabric”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrama/

Noun

trama f (plural trame)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɐ̃.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɐ̃.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɐ.ma/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɐ.mɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɐ.mɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.mɐ/

• Hyphenation: tra‧ma

Etymology 1

From Latin trāma (“woof, fabric”).

Noun

trama f (plural tramas)

1. (of fabric) woof, weft
2. intrigue, plot

   Synonym: enredo

Etymology 2

Verb

trama

1. inflection of tramar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾama/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ma]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: tra‧ma

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin trāma.

Noun

trama f (plural tramas)

1. weave, weft
2. plot (the course of a story)
3. grid (as in an urban grid)
4. (figurative) fabric
5. (geometry) frame

Derived terms

• entramar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trama

1. inflection of tramar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “trama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024