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Where does “transversal” come from?

transversal (Galician) comes from Medieval Latin transversalis, from Latin transversus, from Proto-Italic *trānsworssos.

transversal (Galician): transverse; a transversal

Definitions

  1. transverse; a transversal

Ancestry of “transversal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Medieval Latintransversalistransverse
2Latintransversusturned across, lying across, from side to side;...
3Proto-Italic*trānsworssos—
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