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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=ine-pro *ueǵh-e/o-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ˈtrãːs.we.(ɦ)oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtranz.ve.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''trānsvehō''' (present infinitive trānsvehere, perfect active trānsvē̆xī, supine trānsvectum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ It is also written ''trāvehō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|trāns-|vehō|t2=to carry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vehō]] to [[itc-pro|*weχ-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*ueǵh-e/o-|t=to carry]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|वहति|tr=váhati|t=carries]], [[lt|vèžti|t=to convey]] and [[goh|wegan|t=to move]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first example is in Caesar, who asks how many soldiers had been brought across the sea.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means to carry or convey to the other side, often over water,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Pliny the Elder has a ship carried on men's shoulders across the Alps.^(OLD 2012) 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.^(OLD 2012) Pliny uses it of the Tigris passing through a lake, and Tacitus of time, “although the summer was past”.^(OLD 2012) 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:^(OLD 2012) Tacitus describes Britannicus and Nero riding past at the circus games.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin has it as to carry over, convey, transport.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of troops brought across the sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of spoils carried in a triumph.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of a ship carried over the Alps.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of time passing and of a procession.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To carry across, [[m|en|convey]] to the other side, [[m|en|transport]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(passive)'' To sail, ride or travel across;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) of time, to pass by.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To carry past in a [[m|en|triumph|alt=triumphal]] procession;^(OLD 2012) ''(passive)'' to ride past in a procession.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[vehō]]
+ * [[trānsvectiō]]
+ * [[advehō]]
+ * [[ēvehō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}