English
trans
Trans is a clipping of transgender (or transsexual).
- English1500–presenttransgender
- Englishearliest quotation 1973trans
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- English1500–presenttransgender
- Englishearliest quotation 1973trans
Earliest quotation: 1973, Kert F. Ivie: “A series of one electron shifts in this complex…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- ‘through, throughout, over’
through, enter, thorough, avatar, tram, tardy, torus, tranquillity, sarai, 20 more
through Latin trāns ‘on the other side of’
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.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English transgender / trans