transhumance
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English
WOTD – 20 August 2013, 20 August 2014
Etymology
Borrowed from French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) + humus (“ground”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹænzˈhjuːməns/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
transhumance (countable and uncountable, plural transhumances)
- The seasonal movement of people, with their cattle or other grazing animals, to new pastures which may be quite distant.
- 2005 June 17, C. J. Moore, “Meanwhile: With a hop-hop-hop and a bottle of Swiss bubbly”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 August 2014:
- There are rites of spring in the mountains, and this week I followed the transhumance, the annual movement of cattle, from their lower valley winter quarters up to the higher pastures.
Translations
the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures
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French
Etymology
From transhumer + -ance.
Pronunciation
Noun
transhumance f (plural transhumances)
- transhumance (seasonal movement of people and grazing animals)
Descendants
- → Italian: transumanza
Further reading
- “transhumance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.