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:
transhumancesOrigin of Transhumance
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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
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From French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond") + humus (“ground").
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