trabs

English

Noun

trabs

1. 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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /trabs/, [t̪räps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trabs/, [t̪räbs]

Noun

trabs f (genitive trabis); third declension

1. timber, beam, rafter
2. tree trunk
3. 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 Galician-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.