transfretation

noun

transfretation

noun

Etymology From Latin trānsfretātiō, from Latin trāns (“across”) + fretum or fretus (“strait, channel”) + -ātiō.

1

a passage over a strait of narrow sea

Related terms
fret, fretum, transfrete

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