perfect passive participle of trānsvertō · going or lying across, athwart, crosswise; from side to side; cross-, transverse, traverse · crossed, thwarted
köken: From Proto-Italic *trānsworssos, whence also derived Umbrian trahuorfi (“transversely, crosswise”). Synchronically the perfect passive participle of trānsvertō (“to turn or direct across or athwart”).
aile: trānsversārius, trānsversē, trānsversum
Romani transversam invadunt hostium aciem
ab utroque latere eius collis transversam fossam obduxit circiter passuum CCCC
[…], cuius in adulescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna rei publicae.
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *dh₃ǵʰmós (“oblique”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δοχμός (dokhmós, “aslant, oblique”). The development of Sanskrit -j- from Proto-Indo-European *d is also seen in जिह्वा (jihvā, “tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.