transitus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrãː.sɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtran.si.tus]

Perfect passive participle of trānsēo.

trānsitus (feminine trānsita, neuter trānsitum); first/second-declension participle

1. traversed, passed through
2. passed over
3. exceeded, surpassed

First/second-declension adjective.

From trānsēo + -tus.

trānsitus m (genitive trānsitūs); fourth declension

1. passage, crossing (movement over or across)
2. transition
3. transit
4. (figuratively) ‘passed over’ so as to be non-integral, non-essential, tangential, superficial, inconsequential
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.3:

     Nihil tam ūtile est ut in trānsitū prōsit.

     Nothing is so useful that it can be of service [merely] in passing.

Fourth-declension noun.

• “transitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “transitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "transitus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “transitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): quasi praeteriens, in transitu attingere aliquid
    
  • I said en passant, by the way: dixi quasi praeteriens or in transitu