trāns-versus or trāversus (-vorsus)

    trāns-versus or trāversus (-vorsus) adj.,    turned across, lying across, thwart, crosswise, transverse: viae, cross-streets: tramites, L.: fossas transversas viis praeducit, Cs.: transverso ambulans foro, across the forum: ab hac non transversum digitum discedere, a finger's-breath: (versibus) incomptis adlinet atrum Transverso calamo signum, H.—Fig., at cross purposes, inopportune: cuius in adulescentiam transversa incurrit misera fortuna rei p.—As subst n., only with praepp.: ecce tibi e transverso Lampsacenus Strato, qui det, etc., i. e. in contradiction: ecce autem de traverso Caesar, i. e. unexpectedly.