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transverse
English
Etymology
Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tr?nsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal and transvert.
Pronunciation
- (adjective):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/, /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
- (noun):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t?anz.v??s/, /?t???nz.v??s/, /?t?ans.v??s/, /?t???ns.v??s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
- (verb):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)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.
- (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.
- (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–present.
- “transverse”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Latin
Pronunciation
- tr?nsvers?: (Classical) IPA(key): /trans?u?er.se?/, [t??ä??s??u??rs?e?]
- tr?nsvers?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]
- tr?nsverse: (Classical) IPA(key): /trans?u?er.se/, [t??ä??s??u??rs??]
- tr?nsverse: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]
Etymology 1
From tr?nsversus (“turned across”) +? -? (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).
Alternative forms
- tr?nsvors?
Adverb
tr?nsvers? (comparative tr?nsversius, superlative tr?nsversissim?)
- Crosswise, transversely, obliquely.
- Synonym: tr?nsversim
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Participle
tr?nsverse
- vocative masculine singular of tr?nsversus
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
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scutellum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin scutellum, diminutive of Latin scutum (“shield”).
Noun
scutellum (plural scutella)
- Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc
- (lichenology) A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
- (zoology) The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum.
- (zoology) One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds.
- (botany) A grass seed cotyledon that is highly modified for absorption.
Derived terms
- mesoscutellum
- metascutellum
- postscutellum
Translations
French
Noun
scutellum m (plural scutellums)
- (entomology) scutellum
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