transi

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃.zi/

Participle

transi (feminine transie, masculine plural transis, feminine plural transies)

  1. past participle of transir

Adjective

transi (feminine transie, masculine plural transis, feminine plural transies)

  1. chilled
    • 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 3, in Les Misérables, Tome IV : L’idylle rue Plumet et l’épopée rue Saint-Denis, book 6:
      [D]ès qu'il se sentit hors de danger, il ne fut plus ni fatigué, ni transi, ni tremblant.
      [A]s soon as he found himself out of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling.
  2. (figurative) bashful; paralyzed
    • 1981, Michel Berger, “Tout pour la musique”, performed by France Gall:
      Et comme les amoureux transis / Ils vivent en oubliant leur vie
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

trānsī

  1. second-person singular active imperative of trānseō

Portuguese

Verb

transi

  1. inflection of transir:
    1. first-person singular preterite indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative