Where does “travessar” come from?

travessar (Catalan) comes from Latin trānsversāre, from Latin transversus, from Proto-Italic *trānsworssos — transverse, across.

travessar (Catalan): to cross, traverse

Definitions

  1. to cross, traverse

Ancestry of “travessar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintrānsversāre—
2Latintransversusturned across, lying across, from side to side;...
3Proto-Italic*trānsworssostransverse, across
Every word from Proto-Italic *trānsworssos →Every word from Latin transversus →Every word from Latin trānsversāre →