a. (sb.) Also 7 -an. [ad. L. transpadānus adj. and sb., f. trans across + Padus the river Po, padānus of the Po. Cf. F. transpadan, -ane (Littré).] That is beyond the river Po (from Rome); opposed to cis-padane. b. sb. One living north of the Po.
Transpadane Republic, a republic formed by Bonaparte in 1796, consisting of Lombardy and part of Venetia.
1617. Moryson, Itin., III. 106. Lombardy of old was part of Gallia Cisalpina, which the River Padus … divides into Cispadan (on this side the Po) and Transpadan (beyond the Po). Ibid. Transpadane … containes the Dukedome of Milan.
1797. Burke, Regic. Peace, iii. Wks. VIII. 311. Is it to the Cispadane or to the Transpadane republicks … that we address all these pledges?
1896. Q. Rev., Oct., 396. The enfranchisement of the Transpadane Gauls. Ibid. So much for Caesar and his Transpadanes!
