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): /transˈu̯er.sus/, [t̪rä̃ːs̠ˈu̯ɛrs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /transˈver.sus/, [t̪ränzˈvɛrsus]

Participle

trānsversus (feminine trānsversa, neuter trānsversum, adverb trānsversē or trānsversim); first/second-declension participle

1. perfect passive participle of trānsvertō
2. (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

3. (figurative) crossed, thwarted
   • 46 BCE, Cicero, Brutus 97.331:

      […], cuius in adulescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna rei publicae.

4. (coupled with ex or de) suddenly, unexpectedly, transversely, crosswise

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
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

• trānsversa
• trānsversim

Descendants

trānsversus

• Catalan: través
• Portuguese: travesso
• Spanish: travieso
• → Catalan: transvers
• → French: transverse
• 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