transi

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.zi/

Participle

transi (feminine transie, masculine plural transis, feminine plural transies)

1. past participle of transir

Adjective

transi (feminine transie, masculine plural transis, feminine plural transies)

1. chilled
   • 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 3, in Les Misérables, Tome IV : L’idylle rue Plumet et l’épopée rue Saint-Denis, book 6:

     [D]ès qu'il se sentit hors de danger, il ne fut plus ni fatigué, ni transi, ni tremblant.

     [A]s soon as he found himself out of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling.

2. (figurative) bashful; paralyzed
   • 1981, Michel Berger, “Tout pour la musique”, performed by France Gall:

     Et comme les amoureux transis / Ils vivent en oubliant leur vie

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “transi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• riants, trains

Latin

Verb

trānsī

1. second-person singular active imperative of trānseō

Portuguese

Verb

transi

1. inflection of transir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative