trabea

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trabea.

Noun

trabea (plural trabeae)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes, worn by kings, consuls, and augurs.
   • 1767, Basil Kennett, Romae Antiquae Notitia:

     When the emperors were themselves consuls, they wore a Trabea adorned with gems, which were allowed to none else.

References

• “trabea”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• abater, bat ear, rabate

Latin

FWOTD – 14 August 2017

Etymology

Perhaps from trabs (“rafter, beam”) +‎ -eus, in reference to the horizontal stripes of red or purple that adorned the garment.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.be.a/, [ˈt̪räbeä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.be.a/, [ˈt̪räːbeä]

Noun

trabea f (genitive trabeae); first declension

1. A white or purple toga, or possibly mantle, ornamented with red or purple stripes, associated with the equestrian class.
2. The purple-bordered toga praetexta worn by augurs, other priests, and certain Republican officials.
3. A red or purple garment said to have been worn by Romulus and other early Roman kings and consuls, also used to decorate divine images.
4. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) The elaborate ornamental dress of late Imperial consuls.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trabea	trabeae
Genitive	trabeae	trabeārum
Dative	trabeae	trabeīs
Accusative	trabeam	trabeās
Ablative	trabeā	trabeīs
Vocative	trabea	trabeae

Derived terms

• trabea triumphālis
• trabeālis
• trabeātus

 

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: τραβέα (trabéa)

Further reading

• “trabea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “trabea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• trabea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• trabea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “trabea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “trabea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin