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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *trānsworssos, whence also derived Umbrian trahuorfi (“transversely, crosswise”). Synchronically the perfect passive participle of trānsvertō (“to turn or direct across or athwart”).
Pronunciation
Participle
trānsversus (feminine trānsversa, neuter trānsversum, adverb trānsversē or trānsversim); first/second-declension participle
- perfect passive participle of trānsvertō
- (literal) going or lying across, athwart, crosswise; from side to side; cross-, transverse, traverse
- (figurative) crossed, thwarted
46 BCE,
Cicero,
Brutus 97.331:
- , cuius in adulescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna rei publicae.
- (coupled with ex or de) suddenly, unexpectedly, transversely, crosswise
Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants of trānsversus in other languages
References
- “transverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “transversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- transversus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- transversus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- across; transversely: in transversum, e transverso
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti