transeo

From trāns (“across”) +‎ eō (“go”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrãː.se.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtran.se.o]

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

1. to traverse; cross, cross over; go across or over; pass, pass through, over or by

   Synonym: trānsmittō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.5:

     Boiōsque — quī trāns Rhēnum incoluerant, et in agrum Nōricum trānsierant, Nōrēiamque oppūgnārant — receptōs ad sē sociōs sibi ascīscunt.

     And the Boii — who had lived across the Rhine, had crossed into the Norican territory, and had attacked Noreia — having been received, were adopted as comrades to themselves.

2. to defect, go over (to an adverse side or faction)

   Synonyms: trānsfugiō, dēscīscō, trānsmittō, trānsgredior

3. to pass over or to pass by

   Synonyms: praetereō, trānsgredior, superō, praeferō, peragō, intrō

4. to transcend, surpass, exceed

   Synonyms: excellō, antecēdō, anteeō, praeēmineō

5. (of time) to pass, elapse
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.165–166:

     Nox ubi trānsierit, caelumque rubēscere prīmō coeperit

     When night shall have passed, and the sky shall have first begun to blush

6. (figuratively) to cease, pass away

   Synonyms: cessō, subsistō, dēsistō, dēsinō, sistō, quiēscō, remittō, conticēscō

   Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō

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

• trānseunter
• trānsitus

• “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
• “transeo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• transeo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “transīre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 13: To–Tyrus, page 206