transhumance
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) + humus (“ground”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
transhumance (countable and uncountable, plural transhumances)
- 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.
Translations edit
the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures
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Further reading edit
transhumance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French edit
Etymology edit
From transhumer + -ance.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
transhumance f (plural transhumances)
- transhumance (seasonal movement of people and grazing animals)
Descendants edit
- → Italian: transumanza
Further reading edit
- “transhumance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.