transversum

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /tranˈsu̯er.sum/, [t̪rä̃ːˈs̠u̯ɛrs̠ʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tranˈswer.sum/, [t̪ränˈswɛrsum]

Etymology 1

Substantive of trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or athwart”)

Noun

trānsversum n (genitive trānsversī); second declension

a cross direction or position
- c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6.1018:
  unde vace fit cumque locus, sive e transverso sive superne, corpora continuo in vacuum vicina feruntur; […]

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trānsversum

accusative supine of trānsvertō

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

trānsversum

inflection of trānsversus:
1. accusative masculine singular
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

References

transversum 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)
“transverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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