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transistorize (v.)[transistorize 词源字典]: 1953, from transistor + -ize. Related: Transistorized. [transistorize etymology, transistorize origin, 英语词源]
transit (v.): mid-15c., from Latin transitus, past participle of transire "go or cross over" (see transient). Astronomical sense is from 1680s. Related: Transited; transiting.
transit (n.): mid-15c., "act or fact of passing across or through," from Latin transitus "a going over, passing over, passage," verbal noun from past participle of transire "go or cross over" (see transient). Meaning "a transit of a planet across the sun" is from 1660s. Meaning "public transportation" is attested from 1873.
transition (n.): mid-15c., from Latin transitionem (nominative transitio) "a going across or over," noun of action from past participle stem of transire "go or cross over" (see transient).
transitional (adj.): 1810, from transition + -al (1). Related: Transitionally.
transitive (adj.): "taking a direct object" (of verbs), 1570s (implied in transitively), from Late Latin transitivus (Priscian) "transitive," literally "passing over (to another person)," from transire "go or cross over" (see transient). Related: Transitively.
transitory (adj.): "passing without continuing," late 14c., from Old French transitoire "ephemeral, transitory" (12c.), from Late Latin transitorius "passing, transient," in classical Latin "allowing passage through," from transitus, past participle of transire "go or cross over" (see transient).
translate (v.): early 14c., "to remove from one place to another," also "to turn from one language to another," from Old French translater and directly from Latin translatus "carried over," serving as past participle of transferre "to bring over, carry over" (see transfer), from trans- (see trans-) + latus "borne, carried" (see oblate (n.)). Related: Translated; translating. A similar notion is behind the Old English word it replaced, awendan, from wendan "to turn, direct" (see wend).
translater (n.): occasional spelling of translator.
translation (n.): mid-14c., "removal of a saint's body or relics to a new place," also "rendering of a text from one language to another," from Old French translacion "translation" of text, also of the bones of a saint, etc. (12c.) or directly from Latin translationem (nominative translatio) "a carrying across, removal, transporting; transfer of meaning," noun of action from past participle stem of transferre (see transfer (v.)).
translator (n.): mid-14c., from Old French translator (12c.) or directly from Latin translator "one who transfers or interprets, one who carries over," agent noun from transferre (see transfer (v.)).
transliterate (v.): "to write a word in the characters of another alphabet," 1849, from trans- "across" (see trans-) + Latin littera (also litera) "letter, character" (see letter (n.)). Related: Transliterated; transliterating.
transliteration (n.): "rendering of the letters of one alphabet by the equivalents of another," 1835, from trans- "across" (see trans-) + Latin littera (also litera) "letter, character" (see letter (n.)).
translocation (n.): "removal from one place to another," 1620s, from trans- + location.
translucence (n.): early 15c., from Medieval Latin translucentia, from Latin translucentem (see translucenct). Related: Translucency.
translucent (adj.): 1590s, from Latin translucentem (nominative translucens), present participle of translucere "to shine through," from trans- "through" (see trans-) + lucere "to shine" (see light (n.)). Related: Translucently.
transmigration (n.): c. 1300, from Old French transmigracion "exile, diaspora" (13c.) and directly from Late Latin transmigrationem (nominative transmigratio) "change of country," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin transmigrare "to wander, move, to migrate," from trans- "over" (see trans-) + migrare "to migrate" (see migration). Originally literal, in reference to the removal of the Jews into the Babylonian captivity; general sense of "passage from one place to another" is attested from late 14c.; sense of "passage of the soul after death into another body" first recorded 1590s.
transmissible (adj.): 1640s, from Latin transmiss-, stem of transmittere "send across, carry over" (see transmit) + -ible. Related: Transmissibility.
transmission (n.): 1610s, "conveyance from one place to another," from Latin transmissionem (nominative transmissio) "a sending over or across, passage," noun of action from past participle stem of transmittere "send over or across" (see transmit). Meaning "part of a motor vehicle that regulates power from the engine to the axle" is first recorded 1894.
transmit (v.): c. 1400, from Latin transmittere "send across, cause to go across, transfer, pass on," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + mittere "to send" (see mission). Related: Transmitted; transmitting.