transsepte

Derived from New Latin transeptum, from trans- (“across”) + saeptum (“fence, partition, enclosure”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “IEC2 claims this is from English which seems unlikely?”)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾənˈsɛp.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾanˈsɛp.te]

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transsepte m (plural transseptes)

1. (architecture) transept

• creuer

• “transsepte”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “transsepte”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007