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| Jul 29, 2020 at 23:11 | comment | added | lambda | Surely the adverb should then be "transversely", but that same wiki page insists on "transversally". | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 17:00 | comment | added | Willie Wong | My "exercise" was actually posed with @PeterDalakov's solution in mind. | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 15:37 | comment | added | Peter Dalakov | Actually, there's a (somewhat famous) comment of Whitehead on this: "Transversal" is a noun; the adjective is "transverse.": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transversality_(mathematics) | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 14:49 | comment | added | Brian Hopkins | Lo Bello (see my answer for bibliographic details) on transversal: Though transversus is already an adjective, Albertus Magnus (1193-1280) superimposed the adjectival suffix -alis upon the stem to create the adjective transversalis, from which the English adjective was derived. Albert wrote the first original commentary on Euclid's Elements of Geometry in the Latin language, | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 14:28 | history | answered | Willie Wong | CC BY-SA 4.0 |