Where does “travers” come from?

travers (French) comes from Latin traversus, from Latin transversus, from Proto-Italic *trānsworssos — transverse, across.

travers (French): outside (the external part of)

Definitions

  1. outside (the external part of)

Ancestry of “travers”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintraversus—
2Latintransversusturned across, lying across, from side to side;...
3Proto-Italic*trānsworssostransverse, across

Words derived from “travers”

Every word from Proto-Italic *trānsworssos →Every word from Latin transversus →Every word from Latin traversus →