Etymograph

English

travers

Travers comes from French travers ‘breadth, extent from side’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *trānsworssos ‘transverse, across’.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*trānsworssos‘transverse, across’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānsversus
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEtraversus
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presenttravers‘breadth, extent from side’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*trānsworssos‘transverse, across’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānsversus
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEtraversus
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presenttravers‘breadth, extent from side’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Latin trānsversus

transverse, transversal, 1 more

Today it means

adv across; athwart

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *trānsworssos / travers

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