trair

Inherited from Old Catalan trahir, from Latin trādere with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾəˈi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾaˈiɾ]

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• Homophone: traí
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

trair (first-person singular present traeixo, first-person singular preterite traí, past participle traït)

1. (transitive) to betray

• “trair”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “trair”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “trair” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trair” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• tirar, triar

From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz. Cognate with Swedish tre.

trair

1. three

• traïr (diaereses are not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

An Gallicization / adaptation of Latin trādere.

trair

1. to betray; to commit treason
   • c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:

     Ne dote mie Richart que li Roiz le traïst

     Richard didn't doubt that the King was betraying him

This verb conjugates as a second-group verb (ending in -ir, with an -iss- infix). Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• trahir (pre-standardization spelling)

From Old Galician-Portuguese traer, from Latin trādere.

• Homophone: traí (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: tra‧ir

trair (first-person singular present traio, first-person singular preterite traí, past participle traído)

1. (transitive) to betray
2. (transitive) to cheat on

• trer (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter)
• trar (Vallader)

From Early Medieval Latin tragere, from Latin trahō, trahere (“pull”).

trair

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) to pull