transhumance
English
WOTD – 20 August 2013
Etymology
Borrowed from French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) + humus (“ground”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹænzˈhjuːməns/
Noun
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," New York Times (retrieved 20 Aug 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.
- 2005 June 17, C. J. Moore, "Meanwhile: With a hop-hop-hop and a bottle of Swiss bubbly," New York Times (retrieved 20 Aug 2014):
Translations
the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures
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French
Etymology
From transhumer + -ance.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
Noun
transhumance f (plural transhumances)
- transhumance (seasonal movement of people and grazing animals)
Further reading
- “transhumance” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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