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trabalis

of/for wooden beams

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Where it lives

Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

1. trabalis — de Vaan

trabalis 'of/for wooden beams' (Enn.+). Pit *trab- 'wooden beam' (> Latin), *treb- 'to build, dwell' (> U.), *treb- 'house' (> Sab.). It. cognates: O. triibum, τρεχβ[ωμ [acc.sg.], tribud [abl.sg.] [f] 'house' < *treb-\ O. tribarakavum, triibarakav[iim [inf.], tnbarakattms [3p.pf.sb.], tribarakat.tuset [3p.fut.pf.] 'to build' < *treb-ark-a- 'to be a house-builder'; 0. tribarakkiuf [nom.sg.] 'building' < … — [de Vaan, s.v. trabalis, p. 640]

2. trăbālis — Lewis & Short

trăbālis, e, adj.trabs,

I of or belonging to beams, beam-. clavus, a spike, Hor. C. 1, 35, 18; cf. prov: ut hoc beneficium, quemadmodum dicitur, trabali clavo figeret, i. e. very fast, Cic. Verr 2, 5, 21, § 53.—Poet.: telum, i. e. beam-like, stout as a beam (Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 294 (Ann. v. 589 Vahl.); imitated by Verg. l. l.; Val. Fl. 8, 301: hasta, Stat. Th. 4, 6: sceptrum, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 172: vectis, id. Cons. Mall. Theod. 318

In the wild

trabalia Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8.301

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. trabalis (scan p. 640; entry #1833). Root candidates: *trab-, *treb-.

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