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Latin
Etymology
From trāns (“across”) + eō (“go”).
Pronunciation
Verb
trānseō (present infinitive trānsīre, perfect active trānsiī or trānsīvī, supine trānsitum); irregular conjugation
- to traverse, go across, pass through
- Synonym: trānsmittō
- to defect, go over to an adverse side or faction
- Synonyms: trānsfugiō, dēscīscō, trānsmittō, trānsgredior
- to pass over or to pass by
- Synonyms: praetereō, trānsgredior, superō, praeferō, peragō, intrō
- to surpass, exceed
- Synonyms: excellō, antecēdō, anteeō, praeēmineō
- (of time) to pass, elapse
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.165–166:
- Nox ubi trānsierit, caelumque rubēscere prīmō coeperit
- When night shall have passed, and the sky shall have first begun to blush
- (figuratively) to cease, pass away
- Synonyms: cessō, subsistō, dēsistō, dēsinō, sistō, quiēscō, remittō, conticēscō
- Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō
Conjugation
Irregular conjugation, but similar to fourth conjugation. The third principal part is most often contracted to trānsiī, but occasionally appears as trānsīvī.
Derived terms
Descendants
From *extransire:
From transeunda~*transienda:
References
- “transeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “transeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- transeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- transeo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to wade across, to ford a river: flumen vado transire
- time passes: tempus praeterit, transit
- to pass the limit: modum transire
- the command is transferred, passes to some one: imperium transfertur ad aliquem (not transit)
- transeo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “transīre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 13: To–Tyrus, page 206