transtrum

Latin

Etymology

From trāns +‎ -trum (“instrumental suffix”).

Pronunciation

Noun

trānstrum n (genitive trānstrī); second declension

  1. crossbeam, transom
  2. thwart of a vessel

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative trānstrum trānstra
genitive trānstrī trānstrōrum
dative trānstrō trānstrīs
accusative trānstrum trānstra
ablative trānstrō trānstrīs
vocative trānstrum trānstra

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: trast, trasto
  • → Middle English: traunsom
  • Galician: traste, trasto
  • Old French: trastre, trestre, traste, treste
    • → Middle English: trest
  • Portuguese: traste, trasto
  • Spanish: traste, trasto
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *trọstr

References

  • “transtrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “transtrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • transtrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “transtrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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