transi
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃.zi/
Participle
transi (feminine transie, masculine plural transis, feminine plural transies)
- past participle of transir
Adjective
transi (feminine transie, masculine plural transis, feminine plural transies)
- 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.
- (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
- “transi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
trānsī
- second-person singular active imperative of trānseō
Portuguese
Verb
transi
- inflection of transir:
- first-person singular preterite indicative
- second-person plural imperative