transhumance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) + humus (“ground”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /tɹænzˈhjuːməns/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]transhumance (countable and uncountable, plural transhumances)
- The seasonal movement of people, with their cattle or other grazing animals, to new pastures which may be quite distant.
- 2005 June 17, C. J. Moore, “Meanwhile: With a hop-hop-hop and a bottle of Swiss bubbly”, in New York Times[1], retrieved 20 August 2014:
- There are rites of spring in the mountains, and this week I followed the transhumance, the annual movement of cattle, from their lower valley winter quarters up to the higher pastures.
Translations
[edit]the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures
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Further reading
[edit]transhumance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From transhumer + -ance.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]transhumance f (plural transhumances)
- transhumance (seasonal movement of people and grazing animals)
Descendants
[edit]- → Italian: transumanza
Further reading
[edit]- “transhumance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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