transversus

Latin

Alternative forms

trānsvorsus, trāversus

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

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [trãːsˈwɛr.sʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪ranzˈvɛr.sus]

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
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.14:
  Romani transversam invadunt hostium aciem
  The Romans assailed the enemy’s flank
- c. 52 BCE, 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
(figurative) crossed, thwarted
- 46 BCE, Cicero, Brutus 97.331:
  […], cuius in adulescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna rei publicae.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(coupled with ex or de) suddenly, unexpectedly, transversely, crosswise

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	trānsversus	trānsversa	trānsversum	trānsversī	trānsversae	trānsversa
genitive	trānsversī	trānsversae	trānsversī	trānsversōrum	trānsversārum	trānsversōrum
dative	trānsversō	trānsversae	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

Catalan: través
Italian: traverso
Portuguese: travesso
Spanish: travieso
→ Catalan: transvers
→ French: transverse
→ Italian: trasverso
→ Middle English:
- English: transverse
→ Portuguese: transverso
→ Spanish: transverso

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- across; transversely: in transversum, e transverso
Dizionario Latino, Olivetti