noun · masculinefourth declension
trānsitus
trānsitus m (genitive trānsitūs)
Classical[ˈtrãː.sɪ.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[ˈtran.si.tus]
Meaning
- passage, crossing (movement over or across)
- transition
- transit
- figuratively‘passed over’ so as to be non-integral, non-essential, tangential, superficial, inconsequential
Nihil tam ūtile est ut in trānsitū prōsit.
Nothing is so useful that it can be of service [merely] in passing.c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.3
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | trānsitus | trānsitūs |
| genitive | trānsitūs | trānsituum |
| dative | trānsituī | trānsitibus |
| accusative | trānsitum | trānsitūs |
| ablative | trānsitū | trānsitibus |
| vocative | trānsitus | trānsitūs |
transĭtus, a, um, Part. of transeo.
transĭtus, ūs, m. transeo,
I. a going over, passing over, passage (class.; syn. trajectus).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.:
fossae, Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59: flumine impeditus transitus, Hirt. B. G. 8, 20; 8, 13; Caes. B. G. 5, 55; 6, 7; 7, 57; Liv. 21, 20, 2; 28, 1, 1; Tac. A. 15, 10; id. H. 1, 70; 3, 59; 4, 65; Just. 1, 8, 2; 15, 4, 12: in urbem nostram Junonis, removal, Val. Max. 1, 8, 3.—2. Concr., a passage-way, passage:
spiritus, i. e. the windpipe, Plin. 22, 24, 51, § 111; cf. auditus, the auditory passage, id. 23, 2, 28, § 59. —B. In partic.
1. A passing over, desertion to another party:
facilis ad proximos et validiores, Tac. H. 1, 76: transitūs mora, id. Agr. 38: ad Vitellium, id. H. 1, 76: in alienam familiam, a passing over, adoption into, Gell. 5, 19, 8.—2. Law t. t., a transfer of possession, Cod. Just. 2, 13, 20. —
3. A passing over, passing away:
tempestatis, Cic. Att. 2, 21, 2.—4. A passing by:
capta in transitu urbs Ninos, Tac. A. 12, 13.—II. Trop.
A. In gen., a passing over, passing, change:
in illo a pueritiā ad adulescentiam transitu, Quint. 11, 3, 28: opportunos magnis conatibus transitus rerum, revolutions, Tac. H. 1, 21. — B. In partic.
1. A means of passing, a transition from one step to another:
medius quidem gradus, nihil ipse significans sed praebens transitum, Quint. 8, 6, 38: in figuras alias, Plin. 11, 36, 43, § 120. — Of the transition of colors in shading, Plin. 35, 5, 11, § 29; 37, 2, 8, § 21; Ov. M. 6, 66.—Of transition in sound, Quint. 12, 10, 68.—2. In speaking.
a. A transition:
hinc erit ad alia transitus, Quint. 7, 6, 5: ad diversa, id. 9, 3, 65: μεταβολή, id est transitus in aliud genus rhythmi, id. 9, 4, 50: in Armeniam transitum facimus, Just. 42, 2, 7.—In plur.: unde venusti transitus fiunt, Quint. 9, 2, 61.—b. In transitu, in passing, by the way:
quae leviter in transitu attigeram, Quint. 7, 3, 27: in transitu aliquid tractare, id. 6, 2, 2: in transitu non omittemus, id. 2, 10, 15.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
trānsitus
P. of transeo.
trānsitus —, acc. um, abl. ū, m
trans+ 1 I-, a going over, passing over, passage : fossae: Tencterorum, Cs.: per agros transitum dare, L.— A passing over, desertion : transitūs mora, Ta.— Fig., a passing over, passing away : tempestatis. —Of shaded colors, a gradual passing, transition : Transitus lumina fallit, O.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Latin eō Latin trānsēo Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin trānsitus From trānsēo + -tus.
Descendants
- Catalantrànsit
- Englishtransit
- Frenchtransit
- GermanTransit
- Italiantransito
- Occitantransit
- Portuguesetrânsito
- Romaniantranzit
- Spanishtránsito
- Old Leonesetransido