travesía
Spanish
Etymology
From travesía (“bend, turn”), from Latin trānsversus (“obliquous, crosswise, traverse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾabeˈsia/ [t̪ɾa.β̞eˈsi.a]
- Rhymes: -ia
- Syllabification: tra‧ve‧sí‧a
Noun
travesía f (plural travesías)
- traverse, crossing
- trip, journey
- 1905, Leopoldo Lugones, Un lazo:
- Día a día la montonera les arrebataba algunos, escaramuceando hasta en las calles; y como según los exploradores la travesía de regreso implicaría una desolación sin fin, toda perspectiva de un viaje á pie inquietaba.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- passage; side street (short street transversally connecting two streets of greater importance)
- distance (between two points)
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Further reading
- “travesío”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024