transversus

• trānsvorsus, trāversus

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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /transˈu̯er.sus/, [t̪rä̃ːs̠ˈu̯ɛrs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /transˈver.sus/, [t̪ränzˈvɛrsus]

trānsversus (feminine trānsversa, neuter trānsversum, adverb trānsversē or trānsversim); first/second-declension participle

1. perfect passive participle of trānsvertō
2. (literal) going or lying across, athwart, crosswise; from side to side; cross-, transverse, traverse
   • Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 14:

     Romani transversam invadunt hostium aciem

     The Romans assailed the enemy’s flank

   • Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico II, 8:

     ab 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 paces

3. (figurative) crossed, thwarted
   • 46 BCE, Cicero, Brutus 97.331:

      […], cuius in adulescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna rei publicae.

4. (coupled with ex or de) suddenly, unexpectedly, transversely, crosswise

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• trānsversārius (adjective)
• trānsversē (adverb)
• trānsversum (noun)

• trānsversa
• trānsversim

• “transverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “transversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• transversus 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)
• transversus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • across; transversely: in transversum, e transverso
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti