transir

From Latin trānsīre.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.ziʁ/

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transir

1. (of a cold wind, figuratively) to cut through, to pass through

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• “transir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Latin trānsīre.

• Homophone: transi (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: tran‧sir

transir (first-person singular present (Portugal only; missing in Brazil) transo, first-person singular preterite transi, past participle transido)

1. to pass through, to traverse
2. (figurative) to frighten, to scare
3. to be numb
4. to freeze (to not move at all)

Brazil

Portugal

• “transir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “transir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /tɾanˈsiɾ/ [t̪ɾãnˈsiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: tran‧sir

transir (first-person singular present transo, first-person singular preterite transí, past participle transido)

1. (obsolete) to pass; to die
2. (pronominal, dated) to die; to finish

• “transir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025