transhumanceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈhjuːməns/

名詞

transhumance (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.

Further reading

• transhumance on Wikipedia.