trabs Latin · revision 4970

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈtraps]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈtrabs]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trabs''' ''f'' (genitive trabis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Ennius and Varro have the nominative ''trabēs''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*trab-|t=wooden beam]], perhaps from [[ine-pro|*trb-|t=wooden beam]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Sabellic has a stem *trēb- “house”, as [[osc|trííbúm|t=house]], and Umbrian a verb “to build”, but it is uncertain whether they formed one paradigm with the Latin word.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary compares [[lt|troba|t=building]] and [[en|thorp]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008) Ennius has ''trabēs'' of a felled fir in a tragedy.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it was a tree trunk, a log for burning, and a beam or balk in building, as Caesar's beams.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) By metonymy it was a ship, as Ennius' beaked ship and Catullus' swimming timber.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein says it is a long narrow beam like a pole, against [[tignum]], a short thick one.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ It survives as [[it|trave]] and [[es|traba]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it of a ship.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of beams.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A tree trunk; a [[m|en|log]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|beam]], [[m|en|timber]], rafter.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(poetic)'' A ship.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[trabāria]]

+ * [[trabea]]

+ * [[trabēcula]]

+ * [[trabica]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tignum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}