English
trans
Trans is a clipping of transgender (or transsexual).
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English trans
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1973, Kert F. Ivie: “A series of one electron shifts in this complex…”.
Lineage
- English1500–presenttransgenderWiktionary, English trans
- Englishearliest quotation 1973transWiktionary, English trans. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1973, Kert F. Ivie: “A series of one electron shifts in this complex…”
Word family
English words that share an ancestor with trans, grouped by the ancestor they share, most familiar first.
through Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- ‘through, throughout, over’
- through ← thrugh ← þurh ← *þurhw ← *tr̥h₂kʷe
- enter ← entren ← entrer ← intrō ← intrā
- thorough ← thoruȝ ← þuruh ← þurh ← *þurhw
- avatar ← अवतार ← तार ← तॄ
- tram ← traam ← trame ← *drum ← *térmn̥
- tardy ← tardif ← tardif ← tardīvus ← tardus
- torus ← *torh₂-os
- tranquillity ← tranquillite ← tranquillite ← tranquillitas ← tranquillus
- sarai ← سرای ← slʾd ← *srāda ← *thrāya
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Today it means
adj In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “trans”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / English transgender / trans