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Miscellaneous words

This week’s words
parergon
deterge
trangam
transitive
synoptic

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PRONUNCIATION:

(TRAN-zi-tiv, -si-)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Relating to a construction in which an action passes to an object (e.g. a transitive verb).
2. Involving transition: intermediate, transitional.
3. Changeable; transient.
4. Concerning a relation such that if it holds between A and B, between B and C, it also holds between A and C.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin transire (to cross), from trans- (across) + ire (to go). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ei- (to go), which also gave us exit, transit, circuit, itinerary, adit, ambit, and arrant. Earliest documented use: 1571.

USAGE:

“By the transitive property, he shouldn’t have liked her since he didn’t like her handiwork.”
Jamie Mason; Monday’s Lie; Gallery Books; 2015.

“Inspiration is transitive. At the Malibu triathlon a few months ago, I found myself standing at the swim start between Jillian Michaels, about to do her first open-water event, and Chrissie Wellington, four-time world-champion Ironman winner, who was there to cheer on hundreds of first-timers.”
Lucy S. Danziger; Get Inspired, Pass It On; Self (New York); Jan 2014.

See more usage examples of transitive in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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