Etymology

tran-

Latin trāns
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromtrāns“across, on the far side, beyond”
  2. English todaytran-

Borrowed from assimilated form of Latin trāns (“across, on the far side, beyond”) before s.

Words from the same roots

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