Transhumance Definition

trăns-hyo͝oməns, trănz-
noun
Seasonal and alternating movement of livestock, together with the persons who tend the herds, between two regions, as lowlands and highlands.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Transhumance

Noun

Singular:
transhumance
Plural:
transhumances

Origin of Transhumance

  • French from transhumer to move livestock seasonally from Spanish trashumar Latin trāns- trans- Latin humus ground dhghem- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond") + humus (“ground").

    From Wiktionary

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