transversum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tranˈsu̯er.sum/, [t̪rä̃ːˈs̠u̯ɛrs̠ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate 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

1. 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

1. accusative supine of trānsvertō

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

trānsversum

1. inflection of trānsversus:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. 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