transatlantic

See also: trans-Atlantic and transatlàntic

English

Alternative forms

• trans-Atlantic

Etymology

From trans- +‎ Atlantic.

Adjective

transatlantic (not comparable)

1. (geography) On, spanning or crossing, or from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
   • 1955 May, Walter McGrath and Colm Creedon, “The Cork-Youghal-Cobh Section of C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 308:

     Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort of Youghal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town of Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call for transatlantic liners.

   • 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:

     Many travellers via Fishguard regret the closing by British Transport Hotels & Catering Services of the Fishguard Bay Hotel, built by the G.W.R. early in the century for the expected transatlantic traffic.

   • 2016 November 15, Karla Pequenino, “The women pilots that history forgot”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Ruth Elder was known for her beauty and acting, but her real dream was to become the female version of transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh.

Usage notes

• transatlantic is several times more common than trans-Atlantic. GPO manual lists transatlantic as an exception to the recommendation that prefixing capitalized words should retain the capitalization and use a hyphen.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “situated on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean”): cisatlantic

Translations

spanning or crossing the Atlantic

• Bulgarian: презокеански (prezokeanski)
• Catalan: transatlàntic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跨大西洋 (kuà Dàxīyáng), 橫越大西洋 / 横越大西洋 (héngyuè Dàxīyáng)

• Czech: transatlantický
• Dutch: trans-Atlantisch (nl)
• Finnish: transatlanttinen (fi)
• French: transatlantique (fr)
• Galician: transatlántico (gl)
• Georgian: ტრანსატლანტიკური (ṭransaṭlanṭiḳuri)
• German: transatlantisch (de)
• Greek: υπερατλαντικός (el) (yperatlantikós)
• Hungarian: transzatlanti (hu)
• Polish: transatlantycki (pl)
• Romanian: transatlantic (ro)
• Russian: трансатланти́ческий (ru) (transatlantíčeskij)
• Spanish: transatlántico (es)
• Swedish: transatlantisk (sv), atlant- (sv)
• Turkish: transatlantik (tr)

See also

• transpacific
• Mid-Atlantic

Further reading

• “transatlantic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French transatlantique. By surface analysis, trans- +‎ atlantic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtran.saˈtlan.tik/

Adjective

transatlantic m or n (feminine singular transatlantică, masculine plural transatlantici, feminine/neuter plural transatlantice)

1. transatlantic

Declension

Declension of transatlantic

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	transatlantic		transatlantică		transatlantici	transatlantice
	definite	transatlanticul		transatlantica		transatlanticii	transatlanticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	transatlantic		transatlantice		transatlantici	transatlantice
	definite	transatlanticului		transatlanticei		transatlanticilor	transatlanticelor