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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?am/
• (General American) enPR: tr?m, IPA^(key): /t?æm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

Possibly from Low German traam (“tram, shaft of a barrow”), from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch trame (“narrow shaft, beam”), said to be ultimately from a lost West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) word, probably from Proto-Germanic *drum (“splinter, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *térmn? (“peg, post, boundary”), cognate with Latin terminus.

Compare Middle Low German treme; West Flemish traam, trame.

The popular derivation from the surname of the English pioneer tramway builder Benjamin Outram (1764–1805) is false: the term pre-dated him.

Noun

tram (plural trams)

1. (Australia, Britain, rail transport) A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America).

   Synonyms: streetcar, trolley

2. A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
3. (US, rail transport) A people mover.
4. (US) An aerial cable car.
5. (US) A train with wheels that runs on a road; a trackless train.
6. (British, dated) A car on a horse railway or tramway (horse trams preceded electric trams).
7. (obsolete) The shaft of a cart.
8. (obsolete) One of the rails of a tramway.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (?r?m)
• ? Urdu: ?????

Translations

See also

• cablecar
• light rail
• streetcar
• trolley car

Verb

tram (third-person singular simple present trams, present participle tramming, simple past and past participle trammed)

1. (intransitive) To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway.
2. (intransitive) To travel by tram.
3. (transitive) To transport (material) by tram.
4. (US, transitive) To align a component in mechanical engineering or metalworking, particularly the head of a drill press.

Etymology 2

From Spanish trama, or French trame (“weft”). Doublet of trama.

Noun

tram (plural trams)

1. (weaving) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

References

Further reading

• tram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• tram (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Mart., RATM, mart, matr-, tarm

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?am/

Etymology 1

From Latin trama.

Noun

tram m (plural trams)

1. segment (of road, etc.)

   Synonym: secció

Etymology 2

Noun

tram m (plural trams)

1. Clipping of tramvia.

Further reading

• “tram” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tram” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tram” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tram” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tram.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /tr?m/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /tr?m/, /tr?m/
• Hyphenation: tram
• Rhymes: -?m, -?m

Noun

tram m (plural trams or trammen, diminutive trammetje n)

1. A tram, a streetcar, vehicle on rails for passenger transport in cities.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ramt

French

Etymology

Shortened from tramway.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?am/

Noun

tram m (plural trams)

1. tram (UK), streetcar (US)

Derived terms

• tram ultraléger

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tram.

Noun

tram m (invariable)

1. tram, streetcar, trolley

   Synonym: tranvai

Related terms

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English tram.

Noun

tram m (plural trams)

1. (Jersey) tram

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þr?mr

Noun

tram m (definite singular trammen, indefinite plural trammer, definite plural trammene)

1. a doorstep, or stoop (US)

References

• “tram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “tram” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þr?mr. Doublet of trøm.

Noun

tram m (definite singular trammen, indefinite plural trammar, definite plural trammane)

1. a doorstep, or stoop (US); porch

References

• “tram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trama. Doublet of tram.

Noun

trama (plural tramas or tramae)

1. (mycology) The inner, fleshy portion of a mushroom's basidiocarp, distinct from the outer pileipellis or cuticle and from the spore-bearing hymenium.

Anagrams

• MARTA, Matar, Tamar, Tamra, matra

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan trama, from Latin trama.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?t?a.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?a.ma/

Noun

trama f (plural trames)

1. weft, woof
2. plot (the course of a story)

Further reading

• “trama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Verb

trama

1. third-person singular past historic of tramer

Anagrams

• armât, ramât

Italian

Etymology

From Latin tr?ma (“woof, weft”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tra.ma/

Noun

trama f (plural trame)

1. plot

   Synonyms: intreccio, intrigo

2. weave, texture, weft

Related terms

• tramare

Verb

trama

1. third-person singular present of tramare
2. second-person singular imperative of tramare

Anagrams

• Marta, tarma

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *trag?- (“to draw, drag”). Related to Latin trah? (“I drag”) and tergus (“back, rear”), Ancient Greek ????? (trékh?), English drag, draw, trigger, track.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tra?.ma/, [?t??ä?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tra.ma/, [?t????m?]

Noun

tr?ma f (genitive tr?mae); first declension

1. (of fabric) woof, weft
2. (by extension) A lean, lanky person.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• trama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• trama in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• trama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• trama in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin tr?ma (“woof, fabric”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?trama/

Noun

trama f (plural trame)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin tr?ma (“woof, fabric”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?t??.m?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t??.ma/, /?t??.m?/
• Hyphenation: tra?ma

Noun

trama f (plural tramas)

1. (of fabric) woof, weft
2. intrigue, plot

   Synonym: enredo

Verb

trama

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of tramar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of tramar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?ama/, [?t??a.ma]
• Hyphenation: tra?ma

Etymology 1

From Latin tr?ma.

Noun

trama f (plural tramas)

1. weave, weft
2. plot (the course of a story)
3. grid (as in an urban grid)
4. (figuratively) fabric
5. (geometry) frame

Derived terms

• entramar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

trama

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of tramar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of tramar.

Further reading

• “trama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.