Latin

Verb

trānseō ‎(present infinitive trānsīre, perfect active trānsiī, supine trānsitum); irregular conjugation

1. I traverse, go across.
2. I go over (to a side or faction)
3. I pass over.
4. I surpass, exceed.
5. (of time) I pass, elapse.
6. (figuratively) I cease, pass away.

Inflection

Irregular conjugation, but similar to fourth conjugation. The third principal part is most often contracted to trānsiī, but occasionally appears as trānsīvī.

Derived terms

• trānseunter

Descendants

• English: transit
• French: transir
• Italian: transire
• Sicilian: tràsiri, ntrasiri
• Spanish: transir

References

• transeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• transeo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “transeo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to wade across, to ford a river: flumen vado transire
    
  • time passes: tempus praeterit, transit
    
  • to pass the limit: modum transire
    
  • the command is transferred, passes to some one: imperium transfertur ad aliquem (not transit)
    
• transeo in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016