Trans Definition

Origin of Trans

• L trans- (contracted to tra- before d-, m-, n-, l-, v-, j-) < trans, across, over, orig., prob. prp. of *trare, to pass, seen in intrare, extrare < IE base *ter-, to go, over, beyond > through

  From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

• From Latin trāns (“on the other side of"). The gender-related sense is a clipping of transsexual or of transgender (from Latin trāns).

  From Wiktionary

• From Latin trāns- from trāns across, beyond, through terə-² in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• trans + *, as used as a wildcard in programming.

  From Wiktionary

• Short for transgender transsexual

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition