transversus

Latin

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”).

trānsversus (feminine trānsversa, neuter trānsversum, adverb trānsversē or trānsversim); first/second-declension participle

perfect passive participle of trānsvertō
(literal) going or lying across, athwart, crosswise; from side to side; cross-, transverse, traverse
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.14:
  Romani transversam invadunt hostium aciem
  The Romans assailed the enemy’s flank
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico II.8:
  ab utroque latere eius collis transversam fossam obduxit circiter passuum CCCC
  on either side of that hill he drew a cross trench of about four hundred paces
(figurative) crossed, thwarted
- 46 BCE, Cicero, Brutus 97.331:
  […], cuius in adulescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna rei publicae.
(coupled with ex or de) suddenly, unexpectedly, transversely, crosswise

First/second-declension adjective
	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	trānsversus	trānsversa	trānsversum	trānsversī	trānsversae	trānsversa
genitive	trānsversī	trānsversae	trānsversī	trānsversōrum	trānsversārum	trānsversōrum
dative	trānsversō	trānsversae	trānsversō	trānsversīs
accusative	trānsversum	trānsversam	trānsversum	trānsversōs	trānsversās	trānsversa
ablative	trānsversō	trānsversā	trānsversō	trānsversīs
vocative	trānsverse	trānsversa	trānsversum	trānsversī	trānsversae	trānsversa

trānsversus

“transverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“transversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
transversus 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)
transversus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- across; transversely: in transversum, e transverso
Dizionario Latino, Olivetti