Word Origin Summary

Trans is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *trāntsProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Transrhenane

  English · derived from

• transude

  English · derived from

• transparent

  Catalan · derived from

• treget

  English · inherited from

• tres-

  French · inherited from

• trans

  IDO · derived from

• transpire

  English · derived from

• transpirar

  Spanish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root