verbfirst/second-declension participle
trānsversus
trānsversus (feminine trānsversa, neuter trānsversum, adverb trānsversē or trānsversim)
Classical[trãːsˈwɛr.sʊs]Ecclesiastical[tranzˈvɛr.sus]
Meaning
- participlepassiveperfectperfect passive participle of trānsvertō
- participlegoing or lying across, athwart, crosswise; from side to side; cross-, transverse, traverse
Romani transversam invadunt hostium aciem
The Romans assailed the enemy’s flank27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita I.14ab 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 pacesc. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico II.8 - figurativelyparticiplecrossed, thwarted
[…], cuius in adulescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna rei publicae.
46 BCE, Cicero, Brutus 97.331 - participlesuddenly, unexpectedly, transversely, crosswise
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- in transversum, e transverso
- across; transversely.
transversus (-vorsus) or trāver-sus, a, um, Part. and P. a. of transverto.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
trāns-versus or trāversus (-vorsus) adj.,
turned across, lying across, thwart, crosswise, transverse: viae, cross-streets: tramites, L.: fossas transversas viis praeducit, Cs.: transverso ambulans foro, across the forum: ab hac non transversum digitum discedere, a finger's-breath: (versibus) incomptis adlinet atrum Transverso calamo signum, H.—Fig., at cross purposes, inopportune: cuius in adulescentiam transversa incurrit misera fortuna rei p.—As subst n., only with praepp.: ecce tibi e transverso Lampsacenus Strato, qui det, etc., i. e. in contradiction: ecce autem de traverso Caesar, i. e. unexpectedly.
Origins
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”).
Elsewhere
- Catalantravés
- Italiantraverso
- Portuguesetravesso
- Spanishtravieso
- Catalantransvers
- Frenchtransverse
- Italiantrasverso
- Portuguesetransverso
- Spanishtransverso
Middle English
- Englishtransverse