transversim

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.

Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t

Proto-Indo-European *-ónts

Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts

Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts

Proto-Italic *trāns

Proto-Italic *trāns-

Latin trāns-

Proto-Indo-European *wert-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-etor

Proto-Indo-European *wértetor

Proto-Italic *wertō

Latin vertō

Latin trānsvertō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tim

Proto-Italic *-tim

Latin -tim

Latin trānsversim

From trānsvertō (“to turn or direct across or athwart”) + -tim (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [trãːsˈwɛr.sĩː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [tranzˈvɛr.sim]

Adverb

trānsversim (comparative trānsversius, superlative trānsversissimē)

1. transversely, crosswise

   Synonym: trānsversē

References

• “transverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press