transalpine
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- noun
- /trænˈzælpaɪn/
- Archaic
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transalpino
Examples
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May I suggest the Transalpine Redemptorists of Papa Stronsay?
Blog text (21) -
Transalpine climate and nature, folk customs, and language represented the nascent elements upon which an independent German route to historical progress would be constructed during the nineteenth century.
Academic text (1992) -
The pictures, partly watercolor drawings and partly proper illuminations, were made by an extremely sophisticated Sienese artist who was heavily influenced by Transalpine miniaturists and active from around 1290 through the next decade.
Blog text (16) -
Historically, the Romans often interacted with transalpines who lived beyond the Alps.
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Many cultural exchanges took place between the Italians and the transalpines during the Middle Ages.
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The ancient documents describe the lifestyle of transalpines as distinctly different from that of the Italian towns.
Surface Forms
Morphology
transalpine = transalpine (transparent) = trans + alpine
The noun is a regular substantivized use of the transparent adjective 'transalpine'.
Etymology
Transalpine comes from trans- 'across' and alpine 'of the Alps', so it originally meant a person 'from across the Alps'. That is why a transalpine is someone who lives on or comes from the far side of the Alps as seen from Italy.