travers

From French travers (“breadth, extent from side”). See traverse.

travers (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) across; athwart
   • 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

     The earl caused high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another.

• “travers”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• starver

Inherited from Vulgar Latin traversus, from Latin trānsversus. Doublet of transverse.

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.vɛʁ/

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travers m (plural travers)

1. outside (the external part of)
2. wide side (the side of which the width is measured)
3. (historical) border toll
4. oddity, irregularity of mind and mood, unfortunate disposition, defect of character

• à travers
• au travers de
• traverser

• “travers”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• verrats

• IPA^(key): /traˈvɛrs/

travers

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travers n (plural traversuri)

1. obsolete form of traversă

• travers in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Borrowed from French traverse.

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈβeɾs/
• Hyphenation: tra‧vers

travers (definite accusative traversi, plural traversler)

1. (rail transport) A sleeper for railroad tracks; a railroad tie.

• “travers”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “travers”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4897