transatlantic
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See also: trans-Atlantic
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
transatlantic (not comparable)
- (geography) On, spanning or crossing, or from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
- 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.
Usage notes[edit]
- transatlantic is several times more common than trans-Atlantic.[1] GPO manual lists transatlantic as an exception to the recommendation that prefixing capitalized words should retain the capitalization and use a hyphen.[2]
Antonyms[edit]
- (situated on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean): cisatlantic
Translations[edit]
spanning or crossing the Atlantic
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ (transatlantic*0.2), trans-Atlantic at Google Ngram Viewer
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
Further reading[edit]
- “transatlantic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French transatlantique.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
transatlantic m or n (feminine singular transatlantică, masculine plural transatlantici, feminine and neuter plural transatlantice)
Declension[edit]
Declension of transatlantic
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | transatlantic | transatlantică | transatlantici | transatlantici | ||
| definite | transatlanticul | transatlantica | transatlanticii | transatlanticile | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | transatlantic | transatlantici | transatlantici | transatlantici | ||
| definite | transatlanticului | transatlanticii | transatlanticilor | transatlanticilor | |||