traha

Latin

Alternative forms

• trahea, traga

Etymology

From trahō (“drag”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.ha/, [ˈt̪rä(ɦ)ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.a/, [ˈt̪räːä]

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’s 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