trans
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹænz/
- Rhymes: -ænz
Adjective
trans (not comparable)
- (chemistry) 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.
- the trans effect is the labilization of ligands which are trans to certain other ligands
- (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.
Usage notes
Compare trans- and its usage notes.
Derived terms
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Verb
trans (third-person singular simple present transes, present participle transing, simple past and past participle transed)
- (rare, transitive, social sciences) To cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or something in that vein).
- 2012, Trystan Cotten, Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition (→ISBN):
- […] as they interact with bodies transing gender (and other) borders and spaces.
- 2012, Finn Enke, Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies (→ISBN), pages 4 and 20:
- Although they did so in sometimes very different ways and in different communities, transsexuals, drag queens, butch lesbians, cross-dressers, feminine men, and masculine women all in some senses crossed, or transed, gender[.] […] People who trans gender as well as people who do not may receive cis-privileges, and people who do not intentionally trans gender as well as people who do are denied cis-privileges if they fail to pass (or pass enough) in the sex/gender they are expected to be.
- 2012, Trystan Cotten, Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition (→ISBN):
Etymology 2
Clipping of transgender or of transsexual (ultimately from Latin trāns).
Adjective
trans (not comparable)
- Transgender (or sometimes transsexual).
- 2018, Shon Faye, The Guardian, 30 May:
- Last week, a study released in Belgium suggested that trans people’s brains – including those of trans children – more closely matched those belonging to other members of the gender they identified with than with members of the gender associated with their sex at birth.
- 2018, Shon Faye, The Guardian, 30 May:
- Alternative form of trans*
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Related terms
See also
Etymology 3
Abbreviation.
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trans/
- Hyphenation: trans
- Audio:
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Antonyms
- cis (“on this side of”)
- maltrans (“on this side of”)
French
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
Related terms
Interlingua
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“through, throughout, over”). Cognate with English through, Scots throch (“through”), West Frisian troch (“through”), Dutch door (“through”), German durch (“through”), Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh, “through”), Albanian tërthor (“through, around”), Welsh tra (“through”). See also thorough.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /trans/, [trãːs]
- Rhymes: -ãːs
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
- meta (Greek)
References
- trans in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- trans in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- trans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- trans in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Portuguese
Spanish
Etymology
See English trans>
Adjective
trans (plural trans)
- transgender, trans
- 2015 July 30, ““Tengo miedo constantemente””, in El País:
- Internacionalmente, presentan al país como perfecto cumplidor en cuanto a la protección de los derechos humanos de la población LGBTI. Hablan de la recientemente creada línea de atención y de la contratación de mujeres trans en organismos públicos.
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Swedish
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