
English word travis comes from Latin vertere, Latin trans (Across, beyond.)
vertere (Latin)
trans (Latin)
Across, beyond.
traverser (Old French)
To traverse; to cross; to go across.
traverse (English)
(artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.. (climbing) , To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).. (engineering) , (skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.. (legal) To deny formally.. (transitive) To [...]
travis (English)
(British) A screen or partition between stable stalls.. (obsolete) A beam; a lay of joints; a traverse.. (obsolete) A wooden frame to confine a horse while the smith is setting his shoes. (archaic) Lying across, traverse.