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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ˈtrãːs.we.(ɦ)oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ˈtranz.ve.o][1]

Forms

trānsvehō (present infinitive trānsvehere, perfect active trānsvē̆xī, supine trānsvectum); third conjugation[1] It is also written trāvehō.[2][3]

Etymology

It is from Latin trāns- + vehō (“to carry”).[2][1] De Vaan traces vehō to Proto-Italic *weχ-e/o- and Proto-Indo-European *ueǵh-e/o- (“to carry”).[4] Cognate with Sanskrit वहति (váhati, “carries”), Lithuanian vèžti (“to convey”) and Old High German wegan (“to move”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

The OLD's first example is in Caesar, who asks how many soldiers had been brought across the sea.[2]

Semantic evolution

It means to carry or convey to the other side, often over water,[2][3] and Pliny the Elder has a ship carried on men's shoulders across the Alps.[2] The passive means to sail or ride across: in a speech by Caelius people said that someone had sat on a dolphin and been carried over like Arion.[2] Pliny uses it of the Tigris passing through a lake, and Tacitus of time, “although the summer was past”.[2] In ceremonies it is to carry past in a triumphal procession, as the bronze in Livy, and in the passive to ride past in a formal procession:[2] Tacitus describes Britannicus and Nero riding past at the circus games.[2] Church Latin has it as to carry over, convey, transport.[5]

Timeline

  • c. 50 BC – Caesar, of troops brought across the sea.[2][6]
  • 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of spoils carried in a triumph.[2][6]
  • 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of a ship carried over the Alps.[2][6]
  • 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of time passing and of a procession.[2][6]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To carry across, convey to the other side, transport.[2][3][1]
  2. (passive) To sail, ride or travel across;[2][1] of time, to pass by.[2][1]
  3. To carry past in a triumphal procession;[2] (passive) to ride past in a procession.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  5. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  6. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de