# transversal
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French transversal, from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɹænsˈvɜːsəl/, /tɹænz-/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /tɹænsˈvɝsəl/, /tɹænz-/

### Adjective

transversal (comparative more transversal, superlative most transversal)
* Running or lying across; transverse.
    a transversal line
* Exhibiting or pertaining to transversality; connecting heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
** 2017, Barbara Molony, Jennifer Nelson, Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 189:This kind of politics acknowledges what Yuval-Davis characterizes as transversal feminism which, much like the second wave feminist standpoint theory, “aims to be an alternative to the universalism/relativism dichotomy […] "
** 2018, Catherine Eschle, Global Democracy, Social Movements, And Feminism, Routledge, →ISBN:First, transversal feminist activism rests on an understanding of structures and relations of power as pervasive, […]

### Noun

transversal (plural transversals)
* A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
** (geometry) A line intersecting a pair of parallel lines.
*** 2012, G. E. Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, page 357:Let l and m be two hyperparallel lines. All the transversals to l and m that form congruent corresponding angles with l and m lie in a pencil.
* (mathematics) A set containing one member from each of a collection of disjoint sets.

#### Translations
### Related terms

* transverse

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus (whence transverse and travers).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁɑ̃s.vɛʁ.sal/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

transversal (feminine transversale, masculine plural transversaux, feminine plural transversales)
* transversal
    barre transversale ― crossbar
* cross-sectional
    Coordinate term: longitudinal

#### Derived terms

* transversalement

### Further reading

* “transversal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.

### Adjective

transversal m or f (plural transversais)
* transverse

### Noun

transversal f (plural transversais)
* (geometry) a transversal

## German
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁansvɛʁˈzaːl/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːl

### Adjective

transversal (strong nominative masculine singular transversaler, not comparable)
* transversal

#### Declension
## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsversālis.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾɐ̃z.veʁˈsaw/ [tɾɐ̃z.vehˈsaʊ̯]
* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾɐ̃z.veʁˈsaw/ [tɾɐ̃z.vehˈsaʊ̯]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /tɾɐ̃z.veɾˈsaw/ [tɾɐ̃z.veɾˈsaʊ̯]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /tɾɐ̃ʒ.veʁˈsaw/ [tɾɐ̃ʒ.veχˈsaʊ̯]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /tɾɐ̃z.veɻˈsaw/ [tɾɐ̃z.veɻˈsaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾɐ̃ʒ.vɨɾˈsal/ [tɾɐ̃ʒ.vɨɾˈsaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾɐ̃ʒ.vɨɾˈsal/ [tɾɐ̃ʒ.vɨɾˈsaɫ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /tɾɐ̃ʒ.bɨɾˈsal/ [tɾɐ̃ʒ.βɨɾˈsaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /tɾɐ̃ʒ.vɨɾˈsa.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazi) -aw
* Hyphenation: trans‧ver‧sal

### Adjective

transversal m or f (plural transversais)
* transversal (running or lying across)
    Synonyms: cruzado, atravessado

### Noun

transversal f (plural transversais)
* a transversal line

### Noun

transversal m (plural transversais)
* (anatomy) transverse muscle

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French transversal.

### Adjective

transversal m or n (feminine singular transversală, masculine plural transversali, feminine and neuter plural transversale)
* transverse

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* trasversal

### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾansbeɾˈsal/ [t̪ɾãnz.β̞eɾˈsal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: trans‧ver‧sal

### Adjective

transversal m or f (masculine and feminine plural transversales)
* transversal
    Synonyms: atravesado, de través
    acuerdos transversales ― cross-cutting agreements

#### Derived terms

* sección transversal
* transversalidad
* transversalmente

### Noun

transversal f (plural transversales)
* transversal

### Further reading

* “transversal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10