英语词汇transit的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	transit
词源	transit [LME] Transit initially meant ‘passage from one place to another’. It is from Latin transire ‘go across’. The grammatical term transitive [E16th] for verbs that ‘go across’ to an object is from the same source, as are trance [ME], and transient [L16th].
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