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Translation

to go across, cross over; to pass by, elapse

Examples

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He could not cross the river.

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The army crosses the mountain.

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We passed through a great wood.

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Time passes quickly.

Transeamus .

Let us cross to the other bank.

Transeo, transire, transii or transivi, transitum. It is trans bolted onto eo, so it inherits every awkwardness of that verb: transit, transeunt, transibam, transibo, transiit. The perfect is usually the short transii, and manuscripts write transiuimus where we print transivimus, since u and v were one letter.

Two constructions matter. The thing crossed can be a plain accusative - flumen transire - or it can sit after per. And the intransitive sense, of time slipping away, is just as common: tempus transit. That is where transient and transitory come from, while the grammarians' transitive verb is the one whose action goes across to an object. Late Latin adds a gentler use still, transire meaning simply to die, to pass over.

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This word is part of lesson 17.