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:
- accusative masculine singular
- 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