English Explanatory Dictionary

transfrete

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To cross a channel or narrow sea.

Word forms

transfrete transfretes transfreting transfreted

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], ultimately from Latin transfreto (“cross a strait or sea”), from trans (“across”) + fretum or fretus (“strait, channel”).

Related words

fret fretum transfretation
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