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|lshtext=<b>transĭtĭo</b>: ōnis, f. [[transeo]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[going]] [[across]] or [[over]], a [[passing]] [[over]], [[passage]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Concr., a [[passage]], [[entrance]]: transitiones perviae jani nominantur, Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 67.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop. *<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> The [[passing]] of a [[disease]] from one [[person]] to [[another]], [[infection]], [[contagion]], Ov. R. Am. 616.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In rhet., a [[transition]], Auct. Her. 4, 26, 35; 1, 9, 14.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In gram., an [[inflection]] by declension or conjugation, Varr. L. L. 9, § 103 Müll.; Prisc. p. 982 P.
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