transhumance
Meaning of transhumance
noun
the action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle, typically to lowlands in winter and highlands in summer.
early 20th century: from French, from the verb transhumer, based on Latin trans- ‘across’ + humus ‘ground’.
Information about transhumance
- It is a name.
- The plural form of transhumance is: transhumances.
- Languages in which transhumance is used:
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Hyphenation of transhumance
tran-shu-mance
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- transhumance is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of transhumance
- Spanish: trashumancia
- French: transhumance
- Italian: transumanza
- Portuguese: transumância
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