trans-năto or trānăto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n., to swim over, across, or through; absol.: perpauci viribus confisi transnatare contenderunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 53; Plin. 8, 22, 34, § 81; Tac. H. 4, 66; 5, 18; 5, 21: nec e Tigri pisces in lacum transnatant, Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 127.
Trop.: num tuum nomen vel Caucasum transcendere potuit, vel illum Gangem tranatare? Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 22.