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Where does “transversus” come from?

transversus (Latin) comes from Proto-Italic *trānsworssos.

transversus (Latin): turned across, lying across, from side to side;...

Definitions

  1. turned across, lying across, from side to side;...

Ancestry of “transversus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italic*trānsworssos—

Words derived from “transversus”

  • transversal
  • transversally
  • traverso
  • nontransversal
  • transversare
  • transverse
  • travesura
  • travieso
  • transversal
  • travesero
  • través
  • attraversare
  • attraversamento
  • attraversabile
  • traversa
  • traverso
  • traversare
  • traversabile
  • attraverso
  • traverse
  • transversalement
  • transversal
  • transversal
  • travessa
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