# transitive
## English
### Etymology

From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: trăn'zĭtĭv, IPA: /ˈtɹænzɪtɪv/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

transitive (not comparable)
* Making a transit or passage.
** 1841-1843, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet:For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
* Affected by transference of signification.
** 1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive:By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.
* (grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects.
    Antonym: intransitive
    The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
** 1908, G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy:Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
* (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c.
    Antonyms: intransitive, nontransitive
    "Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
* (algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
* (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
* (probability) Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.

#### Derived terms

* ambitransitive
* bitransitive
* complex transitive
* ditransitive
* doubly transitive
* indirect transitive
* monotransitive
* quasi-transitive
* semi-transitive
* transitive animate
* transitive closure
* transitive dependency
* transitively
* transitiveness
* transitive set
* transitive verb
* transitivity
* unitransitive

#### See also

* reflexive
* symmetric

### Noun

transitive (plural transitives)
* (grammar) A transitive verb.
** 2011, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, The Syntax of Romanian: Comparative Studies in Romance, page 136:This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).

### References

* “transitive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* revisitant

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁɑ̃.zi.tiv/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iv
* Homophone: transitives

### Adjective

transitive
* feminine singular of transitif

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

transitive
* inflection of transitiv:
** strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
** strong nominative/accusative plural
** weak nominative all-gender singular
** weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tran.siˈti.ve/, /tran.ziˈti.ve/
* Rhymes: -ive
* Hyphenation: tran‧si‧tì‧ve

### Adjective

transitive f pl
* feminine plural of transitivo

### Anagrams

* intervista, intestarvi, intraviste, rinvestita, rinvitaste, strinatevi, vetrinasti, vetrinista

## Latin
### Adjective

trānsitīve
* vocative masculine singular of trānsitīvus