transverse

== English == === Etymology === Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal. === Pronunciation === (adjective and verb) (Received Pronunciation) /tɹanzˈvɜːs/ /tɹɑːnzˈvɜːs/ /tɹansˈvɜːs/ /tɹɑːnsˈvɜːs/ (General American) /tɹænsˈvɝs/ /tɹænzˈvɝs/ (noun): (Received Pronunciation) /ˈtɹanz.vɜːs/ /ˈtɹɑːnz.vɜːs/ /ˈtɹans.vɜːs/ /ˈtɹɑːns.vɜːs/ (both) (General American) /ˈtɹænsˌvɝs/ /ˈtɹænzˌvɝs/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s === Adjective === transverse (not comparable) Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas. Antonym: longitudinal (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body. (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .) (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== transversal transversion ==== Translations ==== === Noun === transverse (plural transverses) Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame. (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === transverse (third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed) (transitive) To lie or run across; to cross. To traverse or thwart. To overturn. To alter or transform. (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. === References === “transverse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “transverse”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. == French == === Adjective === transverse (plural transverses) transverse === Further reading === “transverse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Etymology 1 === By surface analysis, trānsversus (“turned across”) +‎ -ē (“-ly”, adverbial suffix). Given the parallel formation in Umbrian trahuorfi, the term may have been inherited from Proto-Italic *trānsworssēd, from *trānsworssos. ==== Alternative forms ==== trānsvorsē ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [trãːsˈwɛr.seː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tranzˈvɛr.se] ==== Adverb ==== trānsversē (comparative trānsversius, superlative trānsversissimē) crosswise, transversely, obliquely Synonym: trānsversim === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [trãːsˈwɛr.sɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tranzˈvɛr.se] ==== Participle ==== trānsverse vocative masculine singular of trānsversus === References === “transverse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “transverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “transverse”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.