trabs
English
Noun
trabs
- plural of trab
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.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /trabs/, [t̪räps̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /trabs/, [t̪räbs]
Noun
trabs f (genitive trabis); third declension
- timber, beam, rafter
- tree trunk
- penis
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | trabs | trabēs |
| Genitive | trabis | trabum |
| Dative | trabī | trabibus |
| Accusative | trabem | trabēs |
| Ablative | trabe | trabibus |
| Vocative | trabs | trabēs |
Derived terms
- taberna
- trabea
Descendants
- Basque: traba
- Dalmatian: trua
- English: trave
- French: travée
- Italian: trave
- Old French: trave, tref
- → Catalan: treu
- → Galician: treu
- → Spanish: treo
- Old Occitan: trau, *trave
- Catalan: trava
- Occitan: trau
- Old Portuguese: trave
- Galician: trabe
- Portuguese: trave
- Piedmontese: trav
- Sicilian: travu
- Spanish: traba
References
- “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
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN