transversus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of trānsvertō (“to turn or direct across or athwart”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /transˈu̯er.sus/, [t̪rä̃ːs̠ˈu̯ɛrs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /transˈver.sus/, [t̪ränzˈvɛrsus]
Participle
trānsversus (feminine trānsversa, neuter trānsversum, adverb trānsversē or trānsversim); first/second-declension participle
- perfect passive participle of trānsvertō
- (literally) going or lying across, athwart, crosswise; from side to side; cross-, transverse, traverse
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Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 14:
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Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico II, 8:
- ab utroque latere eius collis transversam fossam obduxit circiter passuum CCCC
- on either side of that hill he drew a cross trench of about four hundred paces
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.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | trānsversus | trānsversa | trānsversum | trānsversī | trānsversae | trānsversa | |
| Genitive | trānsversī | trānsversae | trānsversī | trānsversōrum | trānsversārum | trānsversōrum | |
| Dative | trānsversō | trānsversō | trānsversīs | ||||
| Accusative | trānsversum | trānsversam | trānsversum | trānsversōs | trānsversās | trānsversa | |
| Ablative | trānsversō | trānsversā | trānsversō | trānsversīs | |||
| Vocative | trānsverse | trānsversa | trānsversum | trānsversī | trānsversae | trānsversa | |
Derived terms
- trānsversārius (adjective)
- trānsversē (adverb)
- trānsversum (noun)
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants of trānsversus in other languages
- → Catalan: transvers
- → French: transverse
- Middle English:
- → English: transverse
- → Portuguese: transverso
- → Spanish: transverso
- → Spanish: travieso
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
- across; transversely: in transversum, e transverso
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
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