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transhumance

English

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WOTD – 20 August 2013

Etymology

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Borrowed from French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) + humus (“ground”).

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Noun

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transhumance (countable and uncountable, plural transhumances)

  1. The seasonal movement of people, with their cattle or other grazing animals, to new pastures which may be quite distant.
    • 2005 June 17, C. J. Moore, “Meanwhile: With a hop-hop-hop and a bottle of Swiss bubbly”, in New York Times‎[1], retrieved 20 August 2014:
      There are rites of spring in the mountains, and this week I followed the transhumance, the annual movement of cattle, from their lower valley winter quarters up to the higher pastures.

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French

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Etymology

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From transhumer +‎ -ance.

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Noun

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transhumance f (plural transhumances)

  1. transhumance (seasonal movement of people and grazing animals)

Descendants

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  • → Italian: transumanza

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