transitio

transĭtĭo, ōnis, f. [transeo], a going across or over, a passing over, passage.

I.

Lit.

A.

In gen.:

(solis) in aliud signum,

Vitr. 9, 4 med.:

sic dicebas, eam esse ejus (speciei dei) visionem, ut similitudine et transitione cernatur,

i. e. by the passing by of atoms, Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 105:

imaginibus similitudine et transitione perceptis,

id. ib. 1, 19, 50:

visionum,

id. ib. 1, 39, 109.—

2.

Concr., a passage, entrance:

transitiones perviae jani nominantur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 67.—

B.

In partic., a going over, desertion to a party:

sociorum,

Liv. 28, 15, 14; 25, 15, 5; 2, 25, 1; 28, 16, 8; Tac. H. 2, 99; Just. 1, 5.—In plur., Cic. Brut. 16, 62; Liv. 27, 20, 7.—

II.

Trop.

* A.

The passing of a disease from one person to another, infection, contagion, Ov. R. Am. 616.—

B.

In rhet., a transition, Auct. Her. 4, 26, 35; 1, 9, 14.—

C.

In gram., an inflection by declension or conjugation, Varr. L. L. 9, § 103 Müll.; Prisc. p. 982 P.