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transitio

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transĭtĭo (noun F) : transeo
* A going across or over, a passing over, passage.
* Lit.
* In gen.: (solis) in aliud signum,Vitr. 9, 4 med.: sic dicebas, eam esse ejus (speciei dei) visionem, ut similitudine et transitione cernatur,i. e. by the passing by of atoms,Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 105: imaginibus similitudine et transitione perceptis,id. ib. 1, 19, 50: visionum,id. ib. 1, 39, 109.
* Trop. *
* In partic., a going over, desertion to a party: sociorum,Liv. 28, 15, 14; 25, 15, 5; 2, 25, 1; 28, 16, 8; Tac. H. 2, 99; Just. 1, 5.—In plur., Cic. Brut. 16, 62; Liv. 27, 20, 7.
* The passing of a disease from one person to another, infection, contagion, Ov. R. Am. 616.
* In rhet., a transition, Auct. Her. 4, 26, 35; 1, 9, 14.
* In gram., an inflection by declension or conjugation, Varr. L. L. 9, § 103 Müll.; Prisc. p. 982 P.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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