travers
See also: Travers
English
Etymology
French travers (“breadth, extent from side”). See traverse.
Adverb
travers (not comparable)
- (obsolete) across; athwart
- 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- The earl […] caused […] high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another.
- 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for travers in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- starver
French
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin traversus, from Latin transversus. Doublet of transverse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁa.vɛʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
travers m (plural travers)
- outside (the external part of)
- wide side (the side of which the width is measured)
- (historical) border toll
Derived terms
- à travers
- à travers champs
- au travers de
- de travers
- en travers
- par le travers
- vent travers
Related terms
- à travers
- au travers de
- traverser
Further reading
- “travers”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- verrats
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /traˈvɛrs/
Adjective
travers
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Romanian
Noun
travers n (plural traversuri)
- Obsolete form of traversă.
Declension
Declension of travers
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) travers | traversul | (niște) traversuri | traversurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) travers | traversului | (unor) traversuri | traversurilor |
| vocative | traversule | traversurilor | ||
References
- travers in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN