English

Etymology
Latin trans across + itus, from eo, to go

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-transitive.ogg|Audio (US)

Adjective
en-adj-notcomp

1. Making a transit or passage.

#:Quotations
#:*For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. � w:Ralph Waldo Emerson|Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet

1. Affected by transference of signification.

#:Quotations
#:*By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy. - w:John Stuart Mill|John Stuart Mill

1. grammar: Of a verb, that takes an object or objects. (compare with: intransitive.)

#:In "I read the book", "read" is a transitive verb.
#:Quotations
#:*Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb. � w:G. K. Chesterton|G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

1. settheory: Of a relation R on a set S, such that if xRy and yRz, then xRz for all members x, y and z of S (that is, if the relation applies from one element to a second, and from the second to a third, then it also applies from the first element to the third).

#:"Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation.

Antonyms
(making a transit or passage):
(affected by transference of signification):
grammar: intransitive
settheory: intransitive, nontransitive

Translations
trans-top|making a transit or passage
trans-mid
trans-bottom

trans-top|affected by transference of signification
Dutch: overdrachtelijk
trans-mid
trans-bottom

trans-top|in grammar: of a verb, that takes an object or objects
Dutch: transitief, transitieve, overgankelijk, overgankelijke
French: transitif m, transitive f
Finnish: transitiivinen, siirtyvä
Italian: transitivo m, transitiva f
trans-mid
German: transitiv
Novial: transitiv
Romanian: transitiv
Russian: пе�е�одн�й (pere�ódnyj)
trans-bottom

trans-top|in set theory
Czech: tranzitivní m
French: transitif m, transitive f
trans-mid
trans-bottom

Derived terms
ditransitive
transitively
transitiveness
transitive verb

See also
reflexive<!--mathematics sense-->
symmetric<!--mathematics sense-->

References
R:1913

Category:Parts of speech

Italian

Adjective
transitive p

1. feminine of|transitivo#Adjective|transitivo

Category:Italian adjective forms

af:transitive
et:transitive
el:transitive
fr:transitive
io:transitive
id:transitive
hu:transitive
ja:transitive
pl:transitive
pt:transitive
ru:transitive
te:transitive
vi:transitive
tr:transitive

• 2007-11-26 06:37 - Saltmarsh - /* Adjective */ cf intran.

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