transhumance

Borrowed from French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) + humus (“ground”).

• IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈhjuːməns/

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transhumance (countable and uncountable, plural transhumances)

1. The seasonal movement of people, with their cattle or other grazing animals, to new pastures which may be quite distant.
   • 2005 June 17, C. J. Moore, “Meanwhile: With a hop-hop-hop and a bottle of Swiss bubbly”, in New York Times‎^[1], retrieved 20 August 2014:

     There are rites of spring in the mountains, and this week I followed the transhumance, the annual movement of cattle, from their lower valley winter quarters up to the higher pastures.

From transhumer +‎ -ance.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.zy.mɑ̃s/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

transhumance f (plural transhumances)

1. transhumance (seasonal movement of people and grazing animals)

• → Italian: transumanza

• “transhumance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.