transitus

See also: Transitus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtran.si.tus/, [ˈt̪rä̃ːs̠ɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtran.si.tus/, [ˈt̪ränsit̪us]

Noun

trānsitus m (genitive trānsitūs); fourth declension

1. passage, crossing (movement over or across)
2. transition
3. transit

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trānsitus	trānsitūs
Genitive	trānsitūs	trānsituum
Dative	trānsituī	trānsitibus
Accusative	trānsitum	trānsitūs
Ablative	trānsitū	trānsitibus
Vocative	trānsitus	trānsitūs

Descendants

• Catalan: trànsit
• English: transit
• French: transit
• Galician: tránsito
• German: Transit
• Italian: transito
• Occitan: transit
• Polish: tranzyt
• Portuguese: trânsito
• Romanian: tranzit
• Russian: транзит (tranzit)
• Spanish: tránsito

References

• “transitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “transitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• transitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• transitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): quasi praeteriens, in transitu attingere aliquid
    
  • I said en passant, by the way: dixi quasi praeteriens or in transitu