English
transfrete
Transfrete comes from Latin transfreto ‘cross a strait or sea’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtransfreto‘cross a strait or sea’
- Englishtodaytransfrete
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtransfreto‘cross a strait or sea’
- Englishtodaytransfrete
A compound of trans ‘across’ + fretus ‘strait, channel’
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- ‘through, throughout, over’
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂-n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trans ‘across’
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‘to brew, boil’
Latin fretum ‘strait, channel’
Latin fretus ‘strait, channel’
Every English word from Latin transfreto
Today it means
verb To cross a channel or narrow sea.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin transfreto / transfrete