English word travis comes from Latin vertere, Latin trans (Across, beyond.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| vertere | Latin (lat) | |
| trans | Latin (lat) | Across, beyond. |
| traverser | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | To traverse; to cross; to go across. |
| traverse | English (en) | (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 (en) | (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. |