trama

See also: tramá, tramã, and tramă

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trama. Doublet of tram.

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.

Anagrams

• MARTA, Matar, Tamar, Tamra, matra

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Catalan

Etymology

From , from Latin trama.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

trama f (plural trames)

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

Further reading

• “trama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Verb

trama

1. third-person singular past historic of tramer

Anagrams

• armât, ramât

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin trāma (“woof, weft”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtra.ma/

Noun

trama f (plural trame)

1. plot
2. weave, texture, weft

Synonyms

• (plot): intreccio, intrigo

Related terms

• tramare

Verb

trama

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

Anagrams

• Marta, tarma

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tragʰ- (“to draw, drag”). Related to Latin trahō (“I drag”) and tergus (“back, rear”), Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō), English drag, draw, trigger, track.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtraː.ma/, [ˈt̪räːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.ma/, [ˈt̪räːmä]

Noun

trāma f (genitive trāmae); first declension

1. (of fabric) woof, weft
2. (by extension) A lean, lanky person.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	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
• Venetian: 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

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Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin trāma (“woof, fabric”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrama/

Noun

trama f (plural trame)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin trāma (“woof, fabric”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɐ.mɐ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɐ.ma/, /ˈtɾɐ.mɐ/
• Hyphenation: tra‧ma

Noun

trama f (plural s)

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

Synonyms

• (plot): enredo

Verb

trama

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾama/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ma]
• Hyphenation: tra‧ma

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trama

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of tramar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of tramar.

Further reading

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