Noun: trava
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | trava |
| Plural f | traves |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like trava
taquicàrdia,
indumentària,
histerectomia,
secada,
seguda,
segura,
segada,
segona,
sedera,
sembra,
savina,
safata,
sageta,
sagita,
sagnia,
sabata,
sabana,
sacada,
sambra,
sanefa, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan trava, from Latin trabem (“beam, rafter”). The ending may have been changed to /-a/ due to the word's feminine gender, or a new singular trava could have been back-derived from the original plural traves (cf. xinxa < xinxes). Alternately, trava could simply be a deverbal of travar, a verb derived from the same Latin source. See: Latin Nouns '
trabs'.
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