transtulit

Transtulit is a Latin verb form meaning “he carried across” or “he brought over.” It is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of transferre, the verb meaning to carry across or to transport. The form results from the prefix trans- (across) attached to ferre (to bear), yielding transtulit, which corresponds to the English past tense “he carried across.”

As a compound with the prefix trans-, transtulit expresses movement from one side to another and can describe literal transport of goods, people, or animals, as well as the transfer of authority, rights, or jurisdiction in political or legal contexts. In Latin, the perfect tense marks completed action, and transtulit is used with a direct object in the accusative and with appropriate constructions to indicate the crossing or transfer.

In usage, transtulit appears in classical Latin literature to convey crossing a boundary or transferring something from one domain to another. It is distinct from transire, the verb “to go across,” whose perfect form transiit denotes merely the act of crossing rather than carrying something across.

Example: Bona trans flumen transtulit. Translation: He carried goods across the river.

Related forms include translatus (having been carried across) and transitus (a crossing). Transtulit is the best-known perfect form of transferre with the trans- prefix; other tenses and voices of transferre are irregular and built on the same root.