DictionaryRoot: trans-
Latin
trans-
across, beyond; from one side to another
Forms
- trans-
- tra- — Shortened in some Latin compounds.
- tres- — A later French development in some borrowings.
Origin
Connected with reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-, ‘cross; pass through.’
Note
Crossing a boundary can become a metaphor for changing a condition or category.
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noun / verb
transplant
trans-PLANT/trænsˈplænt/
To move a living thing to a new location for continued growth or function.
Etymology
Planting across in another place originally meant moving a plant and planting it anew. This image extended to people settling elsewhere and to organs or tissue transferred within or between bodies.
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