traha

traha

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From trahō (drag) + -a.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    traha f (genitive trahae); first declension

    1. a kind of threshing instrument in form of a jagged board pulled by beasts, drag
      • Vulg. I Paralipomenon 20
        Manubias quoque urbis plurimas tulit; populum autem, qui erat in ea, eduxit, et fecit super eos tribulas, et trahas, et ferrata carpenta transire, ita ut dissecarentur, et contererentur.
        He also took many spoils from the city; and the people in it he brought out and made threshing sledges, drags and iron chariots go over them, so they be snithen apart and grounden together.

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative traha trahae
    genitive trahae trahārum
    dative trahae trahīs
    accusative traham trahās
    ablative trahā trahīs
    vocative traha trahae

    Descendants

    • Italian: >? treggia

    References

    • traha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • "traha", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • traha”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Papiamentu

    Etymology

    From Portuguese trabalhar; compare Spanish trabajar and Kabuverdianu trabadja.

    Verb

    traha

    1. to work
    2. to make
    3. to build